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.
Responsibilities
- Growing Datadog’s presence at AI events and identifying opportunities for meetups, hands-on learning, and sponsored events, with a focus on AI or Developer events
- Planning technical programming for AI or developer events that Datadog hosts or sponsors
- Supporting AI and developer focused content at larger global events such as DASH, Datadog’s annual conference
- Tracking deadlines and deliverables for our content and events, including digital and physical assets, and working with vendors and procurement teams as needed to ensure event success
- Identifying and resolving risks and blockers for our event programing
- Maintaining our internal tools and public website for event agenda and speaker content
- Owning our onsite speaker experience for both internal and customer speakers
- Managing event programming onsite, coordinating rehearsals, staffing, and ensuring smooth onsite operations
- Collaborate closely with our Community teams, external stakeholders, and the VP of Community
- Create and refine processes; maintain focus on continual improvements, automation and scaling
- Communicate goals, status, risks, and impact to teams and stakeholders ensuring alignment and visibility of information across teams.
Requirements
- You have approximately 2-5 years of experience in program management, leading similar initiatives such as large scale conferences and related programs within a similar technical environment (B2B SaaS company), partnering closely with technical stakeholders
- You have experience working collaboratively across cross-functional teams; strong leadership and interpersonal skills, experience building and fostering effective working relationships
- You have strong communication skills, attention to detail and enjoy building processes
- You take a data-driven approach to program management; building tools (workflows, custom work intake processes, estimation models), collecting and analyzing data, and driving stakeholder buy-in
- You have experience influencing without direct authority at senior levels internal and external to the organization
- Able to travel via train or air, domestically and internationally, up to 20% of the time
Conditions
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, with the ability to join our Community Guilds
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
- Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits