Hiring: Senior Technical Program Manager Company: Datadog Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:44:55 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Datadog, Program Management, REST, Systems Design About the job Experience: •5+ years of technical program management at a high-growth technology company Required Skills: •See Across: Identify What No Single Team Can See •Own large cross-functional programs spanning multiple engineering orgs, product, and business functions •Proactively surface systemic risks, cross-pod dependencies, and organizational friction before they become escalations •Build and maintain SVP-level visibility through tracked KPIs on Datadog’s highest-priority initiatives •Uses technical credibility, trusted relationships, and product domain expertise to bridge the gaps between functions where misalignment is expensive •Engineer Away: Automate What Shouldn’t Require Humans •Identify repeatable program archetypes and engineer the lifecycle end-to-end with AI solutions; the goal is to make the program run itself •Build automation that reduces the need for coordination, eliminating program overhead so engineers and PMs spend time only on work requiring human judgment Qualifications: •Demonstrated ability to drive large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs to completion with minimal direction •Track record of earning trust with senior engineering and product leadership - not through title, through judgment •Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable owning the narrative at VP+ levels •Active AI practitioner, you use AI tools in your daily work and can demonstrate how they’ve changed your leverage •You have built something, a tool, a template, an automated workflow, that other people use •You identified a systemic problem no one asked you to find and built the operating system to solve it •You automated a program lifecycle or workflow that previously required manual coordination •You have operated in observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or AI/ML environments and can speak to the technical architecture, not just the program execution •You have managed programs with real unit economics implications - cloud cost, capacity, margin •Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand 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 skills, we encourage you to apply. Compensation: •$184,000 - $230,000 / year •New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!