About the company
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
Responsibilities
- Design and lead complex talent programmes for Engineering, spanning leadership capability, career architecture, org design, performance, internal mobility and succession for critical roles.
- Partner directly with PBPs and senior leaders to turn ambiguous problems into clear programme goals, design principles and success measures.
- Help Engineering and People understand and respond to how AI is reshaping roles, skills and ways of working, and translate that shift into practical talent and org design choices.
- Stay hands-on from concept through to adoption: this is a build and run role, not a strategy and handover role.
- Work across Enablement, Learning, People Analytics and People Systems so what you build scales and embeds into core people processes.
- Equip PBPs with frameworks, tools and executive-ready narratives that support real adoption in the business.
- Operate in ambiguity and influence without formal authority, building trust with senior stakeholders even before the answer is clear.
- Evaluate impact using qualitative and quantitative data, and refine your approach based on what the business actually needs.
Requirements
- You have designed and delivered talent programs in a fast-growing, global organization, and partnered directly with executives on strategic people questions.
- You are equally comfortable setting direction and getting into the detail, able to move from strategy to execution without handing work off prematurely.
- You are data-fluent, pragmatic and outcome-focused, with a strong bias towards delivery and follow-through.
- You build consensus, challenge constructively and stay credible across differing perspectives.
Conditions
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, with access to Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits