Manager I, Engineering - Onboarding Growth

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack. This Engineering Manager will lead the Onboarding team within the Shared Capabilities organization, setting product direction and coaching and developing team members. The team owns the “front door” of Datadog — the first experience new users and prospective customers encounter — and is responsible for a world-class setup and onboarding experience that drives new users to adopt Datadog. The role involves close partnerships with other product teams to understand customer needs and deliver compelling first-time user experiences.

• Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Onboarding Growth team
• Coach and develop engineers at various levels
• Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, and architecture patterns
• Build UX features to streamline the onboarding and trial experience through rapid experimentation
• Build out data platforms and use that data to personalize the onboarding experience for each user
• Work directly with product teams to ensure each product has a best-in-class new user experience
• Create AI-assisted setup options to make sure initial setup “just works” out of the box
• Champion the use of analytics data to analyze user behavior and apply those insights to product UX

• At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting
• Experience managing full stack development teams
• Excellent communication skills, including delivering clear, actionable, and empathetic feedback
• Product-oriented: put solving customer problems first and know how to ship features quickly and iterate
• Passionate about experimentation and using data to drive decisions
• Demonstrated sense of ownership over your team’s work

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role is $192,000—$240,000 USD.

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, and fitness reimbursements
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace. This role is based in New York, New York, USA.