Senior Product Marketing Manager - Observability Pipelines

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$154K/yr – $226K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the go-to-market for Observability Pipelines, turning complex telemetry into a clear product story and owning launches, field readiness, and competitive positioning.

  • GTM Ownership: Shape positioning and category narrative to drive adoption and clean pipeline signals.
  • Sales Enablement: Build decks, battlecards, demos, and stories that speed deals and enable field teams.
  • Cross-Functional Metrics: Track adoption, pipeline influence, and launch success to optimize GTM outcomes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for Observability Pipelines, including positioning, launches, adoption, and field readiness.
  • Develop differentiated messaging and category narratives that position Datadog as the intelligent telemetry pipeline platform while supporting competitive displacement against solutions such as Cribl and Splunk.
  • Lead analyst relations efforts for the telemetry pipelines market, including Gartner Magic Quadrant participation, analyst briefings, and market education.
  • Build and maintain sales enablement assets including pitch decks, competitive battlecards, demos, customer stories, and sales plays that help account teams accelerate pipeline and revenue.
  • Partner closely with Product Management, Sales, Customer Marketing, Enablement, and Customer Success to translate customer insights into compelling product narratives and customer proof.
  • Measure and optimize go-to-market performance by tracking product adoption, pipeline influence, competitive outcomes, and launch success metrics.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Product Marketing experience supporting enterprise B2B SaaS products.
  • Experience developing and executing product positioning, messaging, launches, competitive intelligence, and sales enablement for technical products.
  • Able to communicate effectively with highly technical audiences while translating complex capabilities into clear customer value.
  • Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally across Product Management, Sales, Enablement, Analyst Relations, and Customer Marketing.
  • Passionate about observability, security, AI, and helping customers solve complex operational challenges through innovative technology.

Preferred

  • Background marketing infrastructure software, observability, data platforms, security, developer tools, or adjacent enterprise technologies is strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • Generous and competitive global benefits package.
  • New hire equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
  • Continuous career development through mentorship, learning programs, and internal mobility.
  • Opportunities to shape category strategy for one of Datadog's fastest-growing product areas.
  • Collaborative, cross-functional environment with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing leadership.
  • Friendly, inclusive workplace culture that supports professional growth and innovation.
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Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

Founded in 2010
New York, New York, USA
10K employees (510 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
92% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22.3%
Direct
68.4%
Referral
7.4%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
298 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

Funding

Total Funding
$1B
Last Raise
$870M
Post IPO Debt, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $870M
  • May 2020
    Post IPO Debt
  • Dec 2018
    Series Unknown

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