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Datadog is seeking a Senior Manager of Business Recruiting to lead recruiting teams and drive hiring strategies in partnership with HR leadership and business stakeholders. This role combines strategic recruiting expertise with people management responsibility, overseeing team building, scaling, and structuring for future growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Hire, develop, and lead high-performing recruiting teams to achieve quarterly hiring goals and OKRs
- Coach teams to build diverse talent pipelines and maintain high-touch relationships with active and passive candidates
- Partner with strategic and leadership-level stakeholders on critical hiring initiatives
- Stay current with recruiting market trends and facilitate training sessions on sourcing, interviewing, profile identification, and process workflows
- Mentor individual contributors, emerging leaders, and other organizational leaders through coaching and modeling principled leadership
- Use funnel metrics and data-driven insights to identify operational challenges, drive change management, and optimize recruiting efficiency while maintaining a human-centered process
Datadog is a leading observability and security platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders. The company operates as a hybrid workplace, valuing office culture while enabling work-life harmony.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience with 4+ years leading recruiting teams
- Proven people management experience with mid-sized teams and demonstrated commitment to mentoring and developing others
- Excellent cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management skills
- Strong ability to sell value propositions, negotiate, and close candidates
- Ability to operate with urgency across all stages of the recruiting cycle
- Skilled at navigating changing business needs and using data to drive change
