Manager, Product Operations

Datadog • New York, NY

71d

About The Position

The product operations team enables product excellence at scale at Datadog. With over thirty standalone products on a single platform, product operations drives consistency, efficiency, and quality across the organization. As a manager of product operations, you will lead and grow a team of experienced product operations specialists, while also delivering high-quality operational support to product managers, leadership and other cross-functional partners. This is a hands-on management role: you will coach and mentor team members, set clear priorities, and build scalable processes that enable world-class product operations. 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.

Requirements

• 4+ years of product operations or related experience in a B2B saas or high-growth consumer technology company.
• Experience managing and developing team members, with a track record of building strong team performance.
• Strong operational mindset with the ability to implement scalable, repeatable processes.
• Excellent communicator and cross-functional collaborator, comfortable representing the team to product leadership at the VP+ level.
• Hands-on manager, able to balance and employ both judgement and execution.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a team of product operations specialists, providing mentorship, feedback, and career development.
• Establish clear expectations and operational best practices to ensure consistent, high-quality team output.
• Build, refine, and scale processes for roadmap planning, customer feedback integration, and launch execution.
• Develop tooling and create standards for key product management processes (feedback intake, roadmap prioritization, product execution).
• Lead product-wide communications and operational support for major events such as user conferences, product summits, all-team meetings, and cross-functional forums.
• Incorporate user voice into the product development process.
• Drive centralized product knowledge and enablement, ensuring PMs and stakeholders have the tools, resources, and education needed to succeed.
• Partner with product, engineering, marketing, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth product lifecycles, launches and communication.
• Foster a culture of accountability, growth, and collaboration within the product team.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees