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
- Own the voice, editorial standard, and publishing cadence for Datadog's developer channels (@datadogdevs on X, Datadog Developers on LinkedIn).
- Expand into the places developers actually spend time: Reddit, YouTube, Discord, Bluesky, dev.to, Hacker News, and whatever you make the case for.
- Turn shipped engineering work into things people want to read and watch. Releases, changelogs, topical industry news, and more.
- Build the attribution model connecting what you publish to trials and signups.
- Run real experiments: a hypothesis, a readout, and the willingness to move forward if something doesn’t work out as expected.
- Lead the developer content engine around events.
- Get other people posting - Datadog engineers under their own names, and developers outside the company.
- Track what developers are saying about us and our competitors, and route it back to product and growth.
Requirements
- Proven experience growing an audience.
- Ability to point to outcomes your content moved, not just reach.
- Strong writing with a distinctive voice.
- Opinions about formats, platforms, and pacing, and ability to adapt.
- Comfort with tools and automation, building workflows.
- Background open: tech, consumer, sports, entertainment, media.
- Preferred: short-form video production, existing audience, prior work with technical audience, comfort on camera.
Conditions
- This role sits in the Product org, with product and engineering peers.
- Flexibility to make asks, move quickly, and work directly with the audience.
- Competitive salary and equity package, variable compensation.
- Comprehensive benefits: healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health, 401(k) match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, discounted employee stock purchase plan.