Technical Program Manager II
Datadog · New York, New York, USA
About this role
**Technical Program Manager II — Datadog** **About the Role** Technical Program Management at Datadog drives high-priority, cross-functional programs that are too complex for any single team to own. TPMs connect engineering depth with organizational reach—solving deeply technical problems at scale by aligning people, decisions, and context to move the company’s most important work forward. We build systems and automation that make entire classes of program work self-executing. We partner early in architecture discussions, earn trust through technical judgment, and use AI to surface risks earlier, accelerate execution plans, and reveal cross-team patterns that would otherwise stay hidden. --- **What we expect (TPM success criteria)** - **Technical depth, product domain expertise, and AI systems literacy** — understand how AI solutions work, where they fail, and the scope/impact of those failures. - **Build 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, visibility, and influence. - **Build AI-powered automation tools** and deploy them across every stage of program execution. --- **What you will 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 using tracked KPIs on Datadog’s highest-priority initiatives. - Use technical credibility and trusted relationships to bridge gaps where misalignment is expensive. **Engineer Away: Automate What Shouldn’t Require Humans** - Identify repeatable program archetypes and engineer lifecycle end-to-end with AI solutions (goal: make the program run itself). - Build automation that reduces coordination overhead so engineers and PMs spend time only 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 (not activities)—measured by what ships and what never had the chance to become a problem. --- **What we are looking for** **Required** - 3+ 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 from hands-on experience in technically complex domains (observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or AI/ML systems), including model training pipelines, ML infrastructure, and GPU compute. You can go deep on architecture, push back on technical decisions, and hold your own with staff engineers and senior IC
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