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Salary: USD 300,000 - 400,000 / annual
Datadog is seeking a Senior Director of Product Marketing to lead product marketing strategy and teams across three core product areas: Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), and Developer Tools. As a second-line leader, you will manage product marketing organizations, coach people managers, and build high-performing teams capable of scaling with the business.
You will own portfolio-level product marketing strategy across these three distinct businesses, leveraging market, customer, competitive, funnel, and financial insights to identify growth levers, prioritize investments, and establish clear strategies to win. You'll partner with C-level executives and senior leaders across Product, Sales, and Marketing to shape major product narratives, influence go-to-market priorities, and align product positioning with Datadog's broader platform strategy.
Key responsibilities include setting go-to-market direction for each product line, determining the optimal mix of launches, campaigns, content, customer programs, and sales enablement based on product maturity, audience, and business objectives. You will build deep understanding of complex technical products, customers, and markets to challenge assumptions, strengthen positioning, guide teams through technical narratives, and connect product capabilities to measurable customer and business value.
You will establish a culture of operational excellence, talent development, and accountability across the organization, including hiring, leadership development, organizational planning, prioritization, and continuous improvement of Product Marketing practices.
Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace, valuing office culture for collaboration and creativity while enabling work-life harmony.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experienced Product Marketing leader with significant experience leading complex technical product portfolios and operating at senior leadership level; typically 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, 10+ years with a Master's degree, or equivalent experience
- Proven second-line leader with 5+ years of leadership experience and meaningful experience managing and developing people managers, building organizations, hiring exceptional talent, and growing future leaders
- Business-oriented leader who understands growth levers, business and financial performance, full-funnel marketing, and how to use quantitative and qualitative data to make portfolio-level decisions
- Deeply experienced in go-to-market strategy, with judgment to select different positioning, launch, campaign, enablement, customer, and demand-generation approaches for products at different stages of maturity
- Technically credible and able to develop strong command of sophisticated infrastructure, application, developer, or adjacent technologies, translating complex concepts into differentiated narratives and business value
- Influential executive communicator who can navigate ambiguity, align senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, make clear tradeoffs, and establish trusted partnerships across Product, Sales, Marketing, and other functions
