Staff Product Manager, Observability Data Platforms

<p data-renderer-start-pos="54" data-local-id="772495687ed4">As a <strong data-renderer-mark="true">Staff Product Manager</strong> on Datadog's <strong data-renderer-mark="true">Observability Data Platform (ODP)</strong>, you will lead product management for a portfolio of foundational platform bets — work that changes the cost structure and capability of the platform itself, not the cost of any single feature.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="323" data-local-id="0f0c6a75a12f">Among ODP’s portfolio of engineering work are efforts to bring the platform's unit cost down meaningfully each quarter, plus a slate of architectural bets aimed at order-of-magnitude cost reduction over the longer horizon. The work you'll lead reshapes how Datadog ingests, routes, and exposes telemetry value to customers — and is foundational to how every product team in Datadog's ecosystem will think about telemetry economics going forward.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="770" data-local-id="d85cee6b1962">This role reports to the Group Product Manager of ODP.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="770" data-local-id="d85cee6b1962"><strong>What You'll Do:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="e4e283c1cfda" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="844" data-local-id="1ed41339b84e"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Set product direction across foundational platform bets</strong> by defining problems and desired outcomes, partnering with engineering to determine slices of work that drive value in phases for users and the business.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1057" data-local-id="657bda10a707"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Collaborate on the long-term cost-and-value architecture</strong> of the platform — how value-aware telemetry, innovative data engines, and customer-facing cost stories fit together over multiple quarters.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1257" data-local-id="b87f4e049c70"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Develop and defend sizing and impact estimates for large, diffuse programs</strong> — credibly produce the analysis that engineering leadership and pricing partners need to make resourcing and prioritization calls.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1466" data-local-id="032cddbfb3ec"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Anticipate and communicate market trends</strong> in telemetry economics and agentic observability and how they shape platform investment.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1599" data-local-id="521ad7cd2c92"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Develop deep understanding of cost-to-serve</strong> by partnering with engineering on the unit economics of the data platform and bring that cost-profile understanding into collaborative discussions with product verticals about customer-facing trade-offs.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1850" data-local-id="2f17b5c46409"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Surface the customer-positive angles in cost work</strong> that engineering-led optimization tickets don't currently make visible.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1975" data-local-id="ccc7661dc64e"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Deliver concise written and verbal communication</strong> to executive, engineering, and customer audiences; clarify complex architecture, cost-to-serve, and product priorities for each.</p> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="f39cc1341ad0" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2171" data-local-id="46e2e0ee35e1"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Strong systems thinker</strong>: you connect cause and effect across the data platform — from intake through query — and hold the throughline as scope evolves.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2325" data-local-id="a3589a3f7960"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Cross-org synthesizer</strong>: you read across staff engineers, consuming product teams, sales / FinOps, and finance, and turn diffuse signals into