Group Product Manager - Containers

At Datadog we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems applications and teams. We operate at massive scale—trillions of data points per day—enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving across Dev Ops and Security teams for tens of thousands of customers worldwide. Our engineering culture values pragmatism honesty and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

The Containers product group sits at the core of Datadog’s Infrastructure business and powers a significant portion of Datadog’s revenue. As modern infrastructure continues to shift toward Kubernetes and containerized workloads this group is responsible for helping customers operate secure and optimize their most critical production environments—reliably and at scale.

In this role you will define the long-term vision and strategy for Datadog’s Containers & Live processes products spanning Kubernetes observability container runtime visibility workload health and the operational workflows that infrastructure teams rely on every day. You will lead a team of product managers building foundational platform capabilities used by thousands of customers running mission-critical workloads in production.

At Datadog we place value in our office culture—the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead and grow a team of product managers responsible for Datadog’s Containers and Kubernetes product portfolio.
• Own the product vision roadmap and execution for containers observability ensuring the products continue to drive meaningful customer value and significant Infra revenue.
• Define and drive the next generation of Containers products by applying AI and machine learning to help customers understand operate and troubleshoot complex containerized systems automatically.
• Co-define and build the next generation of containers and Kubernetes capabilities as part of the Datadog unified platform deeply integrated with metrics logs traces security and CI/CD workflows.
• Partner closely with engineering leadership to deliver platform-level capabilities that scale across products and customers.
• Collaborate with other Datadog product teams (APM Logs Network Cloud Security Serverless) to improve cross-product workflows and help customers troubleshoot faster and operate with confidence.
• Work with go-to-market sales customer success and support teams to shape positioning packaging and launch strategies for new Containers features.
• Represent Containers product strategy internally and externally helping align leadership around priorities and long-term bets.

Who You Are: 

• Experience: 8+ years of B2B SaaS product management experience with 2+ years managing and developing a team of product managers.
• Domain Expertise: Deep familiarity with containers and Kubernetes ecosystems including how modern infrastructure teams build deploy and operate production workloads.
• Leadership: Proven ability to hire mentor and scale high-performing product teams while setting clear direction and expectations.
• Customer Partnership: Experience working closely with enterprise customers operating complex large-scale infrastructure.
• Technical Credibility: Strong technical background that enables effective collaboration with senior engineers and earns trust with highly technical customers.
  AI Product Fluency: Experience incorporating AI or machine learning into customer-facing products or strong intuition for where AI can meaningfully improve workflows decision-making and automation for infrastructure teams.
• Data & Systems Thinking: Comfort working with large-scale data systems and understanding how telemetry signals and models can be combined to generate actionable insights.
• Platform Thinking: Experience building foundational platform products or shared infrastructure that supports multiple use cases and teams.
• Product Craft: Strong track record of shipping impactful products by working closely with design and engineering balancing usability performance scale and trust.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Ability to lead complex cross-team initiatives and align stakeholders across product engineering data and go-to-market functions.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your experience we encourage you to apply. 

Benefits & Growth:

• 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 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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What We Do

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation cloud migration and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers for engineers Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together we champion professional development diversity of thought innovation and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative pragmatic and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems take smart risks and celebrate one another.

Why Work With Us

At Datadog we learn from and celebrate each other daily - each win is a team win. Datadogs solve tough problems innovate pragmatically and grow together. We promote from within provide mentorship and opportunities for career development and support our colleagues in the process. Best of all? We truly love what we do.

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