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Posted 3 days agoSenior Product Manager - Fleet and Lifecycle Management
at Datadoghq
Boston, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the product vision and roadmap for a unified fleet and lifecycle management capability spanning multiple product lines and deployment models.
- Define what "managed" means for each new software component as it's brought into fleet, balancing consistency of
- Drive a phased expansion plan, sequencing new components into fleet based on customer value, technical complexity, and dependency readiness.
- Build the business case, define success metrics, and communicate roadmap and trade-offs to engineering, design, sales, and executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- The Senior PM will expand the scope of fleet capability to additional Datadog software components, making it the single place customers go to see everything running in their environment, at any version, in any deployment model, and to manage it remotely and safely at scale, for both human operators and, increasingly, AI agents acting on their behalf.
- experience across UI, API, and MCP for customers.
- experience with the realities of each component's operational model.
- Represent the voice of the customer for a capability that must work equally well for human operators using a UI and for AI agents/automated tooling operating programmatically.
- Demonstrated ability to build product direction across multiple engineering teams with differing priorities, and to drive alignment without direct authority.
- Experience designing products for emerging AI-agent/automation use cases is a strong plus.
- Experience with Kubernetes-based deployment models and operator patterns. •
- Experience with remote configuration or feature-flagging infrastructure at scale.
- Familiarity with BYOC (bring-your-own-cloud) or customer-hosted software deployment models.
- 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.
- Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
- Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Experience
- 5+ years of product management experience, with a track record of owning complex, technical, cross-product capability. •
Benefits
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. Bonus Points •
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
- Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
- benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
- The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $192,000 — $240,000 USD
Additional details
- Datadog is looking for a Senior Product Manager to help lead the evolution of our fleet and lifecycle management capability, the product surface that gives customers visibility into, and control over, the observability software running across their infrastructure.
- This capability manages the deployment lifecycle for core observability agents and OpenTelemetry collectors running on customer hosts and containers.
- This is a high-visibility, cross-functional role. You'll partner with multiple engineering teams and be responsible for defining and delivering a coherent, unified fleet
- 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
- Partner closely with engineering leads across several teams to align on shared architecture principles to support disparate software components.
- Stay closely connected to customers and design partners to validate priorities and de-risk major roadmap bets. Who You Are:
- Experience shipping infrastructure, DevOps, IT operations, or observability/monitoring products, ideally involving fleet management, configuration management, or software lifecycle/deployment tooling.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, defining scope and sequencing capabilities that deliver customer value incrementally.
- Strong technical fluency; you don't need to write code, but you should be comfortable discussing architecture trade-offs with engineers. •