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
- Identify compelling opportunities that support Datadog’s strategic priorities through primary engagement with senior business leaders, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists
- Partner with product teams to comprehensively assess expansion opportunities and build internal and external consensus
- Serve as a subject matter expert on valuation and integration
- Lead all pre-transaction tech-diligence efforts
- Bring transactions over the finish line
- Create or find suitable test-loads if needed, and set up trial environments that can help to test claims and identify values of the startups we evaluate.
- Interact with strategic leadership on a regular basis to provide results and opinions on active deals and opportunities.
- Represent Product and Engineering in initial Product calls, help identify potential targets and find product fit.
- Act as main contact point for startups and cross-functional groups within Datadog, including Product, Engineering, Security in all questions related to integration, value (what we get from the acquisition and what we should build) and architecture of active M&A deals
Requirements
- Experienced in product development, solution architecture or engineering.
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a STEM field or equivalent experience.
- An excellent communicator
- Versatile in a wide range of cloud technologies relevant to the full suite of Datadog products - including infrastructure, APM, security, analytics and AI/ML
- Able to focus on high priority testing goals based on value and risk assessment.
- Able to prioritize multiple stakeholders and projects with limited resources
- A self-starter who excels in technically demanding, fast-paced, and fluid environments
- Able to demonstrate creative and analytical thinking
- Able to collect feedback from multiple parties, summarize this feedback and merge it with facts and comparisons across similar applications.
- Able to build and maintain a network of relationships to facilitate deal flow
Conditions
- Continuous career development with plenty of exposure to our founders
- Opportunity to learn and access the latest tech and influence how we plan to use it
- Learn how the best companies are built - learn what to do and what not to do
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Best in breed onboarding
- Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.