Senior Director, Product Marketing

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$300K/yr – $400K/yrSenior Level10+ years exp

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and scale a senior Product Marketing function for APM, DEM, and Developer Tools, guiding portfolio strategy and go-to-market across three businesses.

  • Leads and develops PMM organizations and talent
  • Drives portfolio-level strategy, GTM direction, and cross-functional alignment with executives

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the Product Marketing organizations responsible for APM, DEM, and Developer Tools, coaching people managers and building high-performing teams capable of scaling with the business.
  • Own portfolio-level product marketing strategy across three distinct businesses, using market, customer, competitive, funnel, and financial insights to identify growth levers, prioritize investments, and establish clear strategies to win.
  • Partner with C-level executives and senior Product, Sales, and Marketing leaders to shape major product narratives, influence go-to-market priorities, and align product positioning with Datadog's broader platform strategy.
  • Set the go-to-market direction for each product line, determining the right mix of launches, campaigns, content, customer programs, sales enablement, and other marketing tactics based on product maturity, audience, business objectives, and performance data.
  • Build a deep understanding of complex technical products, customers, and markets so you can challenge assumptions, strengthen positioning, guide teams through technical narratives, and connect product capabilities to measurable customer and business value.
  • Establish a culture of operational excellence, talent development, and accountability across the organization, including hiring, leadership development, organizational planning, prioritization, and continuous improvement of Product Marketing practices.

Requirements

  • An experienced Product Marketing leader with significant experience leading complex technical product portfolios and operating at senior leadership level; the Senior Director career path typically reflects 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, 10 years with a Master's degree, or equivalent experience.
  • A proven second-line leader with 5+ years of leadership experience and meaningful experience managing and developing people managers, building organizations, hiring exceptional talent, and growing future leaders.
  • A business-oriented leader who understands growth levers, business and financial performance, full-funnel marketing, and how to use quantitative and qualitative data to make portfolio-level decisions.
  • Deeply experienced in go-to-market strategy, with the judgment to select different positioning, launch, campaign, enablement, customer, and demand-generation approaches for products at different stages of maturity.
  • Technically credible and able to develop a strong command of sophisticated infrastructure, application, developer, or adjacent technologies, translating complex concepts into differentiated narratives and business value.
  • An influential executive communicator who can navigate ambiguity, align senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, make clear tradeoffs, and establish trusted partnerships across Product, Sales, Marketing, and other functions.

Benefits

  • Generous and competitive benefits package
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
  • Employee-focused best in class onboarding
  • Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
  • Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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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

Salaries

Posted range

$300K/yr – $400K/yr

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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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Traffic Source Mix
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22.3%
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68.4%
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7.4%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.6%

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Current headcount: ~10.4K

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