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
- Own the pipeline and candidate experience: Own the end-to-end candidate lifecycle for assigned schools, functions, or programs across EMEA, from sourcing and screening through offer and conversion.
- Deliver a high-touch, consistent candidate experience across every touchpoint: outreach, interviews, events, internship hosting, and offer.
- Maintain funnel momentum, diagnose issues early, and unblock your pipeline weekly.
- Be a brand ambassador: Represent Datadog as a premier employer for emerging talent across university campuses and virtual channels in EMEA.
- Own key university and student organization relationships; act as the face of Datadog on campus.
- Plan and execute recruiting events, career fairs, hackathons, info sessions, and "beyond campus" engagements that create real excitement, not just check a box.
- Embed yourself in the culture of the schools and organizations you partner with, and connect that understanding back to our recruiting goals.
- Drive inclusive, representative hiring: Build inclusive sourcing and engagement strategies and track representation across your funnel.
- Identify where diverse candidates drop off and take action to improve outcomes at every stage: outreach, interview, and close.
- Use data to get better, not just to report: Know your personal KPIs (conversion, offer acceptance, funnel health) and use them to self-correct.
- Use AI-enabled tools to summarize data, spot trends, and reduce manual work, while checking outputs for accuracy before acting on them.
- Bring insights and recommendations to hiring partners, not just status updates.
- Innovate and iterate: Test new engagement formats, sourcing strategies, and event formats; measure what works and share it with the team.
- Adopt a "Start, Stop, Continue" mindset after each recruiting cycle.
Requirements
- For Recruiter: 1-3 years of experience in campus, university, or early career recruiting.
- Proven ability to build and manage a candidate pipeline end-to-end.
- Strong communicator who can represent Datadog confidently in front of students, hiring managers, and university partners.
- Comfortable with data and the ability to track your own numbers and use them to improve your approach.
- Organized and adaptable; you can run multiple events, timelines, and candidates at once without dropping the ball.
- Fluent in English and French; additional European languages are a plus.
- Willingness to travel to campuses across Europe.
- For Senior Recruiter, additionally: 3-5+ years of experience in campus/early career recruiting, including ownership of complex or high-priority school relationships and programs.
- Track record of shaping strategy, not just executing a plan. You've influenced hiring partners with data and driven measurable improvements to pipeline or inclusion outcomes.
- Experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and holding hiring teams accountable to shared goals.
- History of mentoring or coaching other recruiters and setting the bar for team behaviors.
Conditions
- Generous and competitive health benefits.
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities.
- Best in breed onboarding.
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
- An inclusive company culture, with the ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups).
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions.
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
- Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.