Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry
About The Position
Datadog is seeking a Staff Product Manager to help lead and scale our OpenTelemetry efforts across Datadog products. OpenTelemetry is foundational to modern observability and Datadog already provides a strong set of OpenTelemetry capabilities to power standards-based observability experiences for customers. In this highly visible role, you will evolve OpenTelemetry at Datadog, strengthening consistency, deepening integration, and delivering best-in-class experiences for customers who rely on open standards. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure OpenTelemetry is a seamless and powerful path for sending, managing, and analyzing telemetry in Datadog. This role requires both strategic thinking and hands-on execution, operating at the intersection of open source technology and business. 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
- 8+ years of Product Management experience, with significant ownership in infrastructure, observability, telemetry systems, or developer platforms.
- Strong technical understanding of distributed systems, agents/collectors, libraries, telemetry pipelines, and the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.
- A systems thinker who can connect ingestion architecture, platform capabilities, and end-user experience.
- Experience leading large, cross-functional initiatives across multiple product areas.
- Excellent communicator with the ability to influence senior engineering, design, and go-to-market stakeholders.
- Customer-focused and data-driven in your decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive Datadog’s company-wide OpenTelemetry vision and roadmap, ensuring consistent and high-quality OpenTelemetry support across products.
- Drive customer discovery across multiple products and initiatives, synthesizing insights from customer conversations, supporting data, and the OpenTelemetry community.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders across product portfolio to strengthen native OpenTelemetry support across all signals.
- Influence OpenTelemetry investment direction and product priorities by connecting customer needs and observability trends with business opportunities.
- Define and track internal and external OpenTelemetry adoption metrics, communicating progress and impact to leadership.
- Represent Datadog externally with customers and in industry forums, contributing to thought leadership around observability standards.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
