Social Media Lead, Developer Audience

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$139K/yr – $164K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 21 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own the developer content and publishing engine for Datadog, turning engineering work into engaging posts across channels, experimenting and measuring impact, and building a scalable content ecosystem that drives trials and signups.

  • Own voice and cadence across developer channels
  • Expand to new developer communities and formats
  • Measure impact by linking content to trials and signups

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the voice, editorial standard, and publishing cadence for Datadog's developer channels (@datadogdevs on X, Datadog Developers on LinkedIn)
  • Treat replies as a primary surface. The best accounts win in the mentions, not the feed
  • Expand into the places developers actually spend time: Reddit, YouTube, Discord, Bluesky, dev.to, Hacker News, and whatever you make the case for. Always openly as Datadog — developers catch anything else immediately, and you only get caught once
  • Turn shipped engineering work into things people want to read and watch. Releases, changelogs, war stories, the occasional postmortem that deserves a wider audience
  • Build the attribution model connecting what you publish to trials and signups. Nobody is handing you this one
  • Run real experiments: a hypothesis, a readout, and the willingness to kill something publicly when it doesn't work
  • Lead the developer content engine around events
  • Get other people posting — Datadog engineers under their own names, and developers outside the company who already like us and could use the support
  • Track what developers are saying about us and our competitors, and route it back to product and growth

Requirements

  • You've grown an audience from a small number to a large one
  • You can point to outcomes your content moved, not just reach
  • You're a strong writer with a distinctive voice, and you know the difference between writing about an audience and writing for one
  • You have opinions about formats, platforms, and pacing, and you change them when the algorithms demand it
  • You know what ships now and what needs a second set of eyes
  • You're a vibe poster (or coder) and you know how to build hype
  • You're comfortable with tools and automation, and you'd rather build a workflow than repeat a task
  • You distrust vanity metrics
  • Your writing doesn't get scrolled past
  • Background is open. Consumer, sports, entertainment, media, tech. It doesn't matter whether you came from engineering, growth, marketing, B2C, or something unrelated. Show us what you shipped and what it moved.

Preferred

  • Preferred: short-form video you produced yourself, an existing audience of your own, prior work with a technical or enthusiast audience, comfort on camera, and ideas about what to build with other teams, partners, and integrations.

Benefits

  • Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
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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
3.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

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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