Senior Technical Program Manager
Datadog · New York, New York, USA
About this role
**Senior Technical Program Manager — Datadog** ## About the Role TPMs at Datadog see the problems hiding between teams, engineer away the work that shouldn’t require humans, and drive the company’s most technically complex and consequential bets to completion. Technical Program Management at Datadog operates at the intersection of engineering depth and organizational reach—driving high-priority, cross-functional programs that are too complex and consequential for any single team to own. We build systems and automation that make entire classes of program work self-executing, partner early in architecture conversations, and use AI to surface risks earlier, accelerate execution plans, and reveal cross-team patterns. ## What We Expect - **Technical depth, product domain expertise, and AI systems literacy** (knowing how AI solutions work, where they fail, and the scope/impact of those failures) - **Build the systems that reduce the need for coordination** - **Identify what matters before anyone asks, and automate the rest** - **Engineer program lifecycles end-to-end** - **See what no single team can see and own the solution** - **Drive the company’s most technically complex and consequential bets** through cross-functional agreement, organizational visibility, and influence - **Build AI-powered automation tools** and deploy them at every stage of program execution ## What You’ll Do ### See Across: Identify What No Single Team Can See - Own large cross-functional programs spanning multiple engineering orgs, product, and business functions - Proactively surface systemic risks, cross-pod dependencies, and organizational friction before they become escalations - Build and maintain **SVP-level visibility** via tracked KPIs on Datadog’s highest-priority initiatives - Use technical credibility, trusted relationships, and product domain expertise to bridge gaps between functions ### Engineer Away: Automate What Shouldn’t Require Humans - Identify repeatable program archetypes and engineer the lifecycle end-to-end with AI solutions (make the program run itself) - Build automation that reduces coordination overhead so engineers and PMs spend time on work requiring human judgment - Contribute to the TPM toolkit: AI-powered risk synthesis, dependency tracking, stakeholder mapping, and program templates - Drive the shift from manual coordination to self-executing program infrastructure ### Drive Completion: Move the Company’s Most Complex Bets Forward - Lead programs across four archetypes: deep technical, large cross-functional, product delivery, and operational - Accelerate alignment by removing friction and overhead (not by adding process) - Hold the judgment call on when to escalate, when to slow down, and when technical decisions have organizational implications - Own outcomes (what ships and what never became a problem) ## Who You Are ### Required - **5+ years** of technical program management at a high-growth technology company - Demonstrated ability to drive large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs to completion with minimal direction - Engineering credibility earned through hands-on experience in complex domains (observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or AI/ML systems including model training pipelines, ML infrastructure, and GPU compute) - Track record of earning trust with senior engineering and product leadership through judgment - Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable owning the narrative at **VP+** levels -
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