Social Media Lead, Developer Audience

New York City, NY (Unknown)

$139K/yr – $164K/yrMid Level

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own the developer audience growth and content engine for Datadog, from voice and channels to experiments, measurement, and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Own publisher voice and cadence for developer channels
  • Build attribution, experiments, and cross-team collaboration

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Reports to: Head of Developer Growth · New York, NY
  • NOTE: This is not a traditional marketing role, it's a growth role that reports into the Product org.
  • We're hiring someone to build our developer audience the way the best consumer brands build audiences, with a real voice, a point of view, and the speed to act on both. You'll own where and how we show up in the places developers actually spend time, run our developer social channels, expand into new ones, and build the tooling and measurement behind it.
  • This is a builder role, not simply a coordination role.
  • What You'll Do:
  • 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

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

  • This role sits in the Product org, so you'll have product and engineering peers, the flexibility to make asks, move quickly, and work directly with the audience we're trying to reach.
  • #LI-Hybrid
  • About Datadog: Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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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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