Director, Product Management - Security

About Datadog:

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world to defend the enterprise from code-to-cloud-to-runtime. Used by thousands of companies globally, Datadog security products uniquely leverage Datadog’s unified security and observability platform so Security, DevOps and SRE can collaborate rapidly and seamlessly to deliver better detection, prioritization and remediation. Our product and engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

The Opportunity:

In this competitive market, the Director of Product Management for Security will play a mission-critical role in providing product and strategy leadership to grow Datadog’s market share through differentiation, innovation and compelling customer value.

This leader will work with a talented and growing team of product managers and engineers to build and grow multiple product lines that play an essential role for our customers’ data, AI, code and cloud security programs, and growing Datadog into a security industry leader.

You Will: 

• Run and grow multiple product lines to meet revenue and business targets with the goal of building a multi-hundred million dollar annual business.


• Lead and own product strategy and roadmap for accountable security product lines, fully aligned to revenue and business goals and with compelling differentiation and customer value.


• Ensure predictable roadmap execution across direct and partner teams to achieve product and business outcomes required to meet the revenue and business goals.


• Analyze and develop pricing and packaging strategies to maximize revenue through attaching deep understanding of market dynamics and other strategic leverage points.


• Drive GTM strategy with GTM partner teams to achieve revenue and business goals


• Fulfill the role as the product-leader representative across accountable product lines with analyst, press and customer communities


• Manage and grow both manager and individual contributor (IC) Product Managers, ensuring they are motivated, delivering high quality work and finding high fulfillment.


• Model and contribute to a culture of learning and collaboration across product management and the broader organization


• Raise the bar of PM leadership through leadership in strategy development, roadmap planning and execution, GTM and overall product-leader responsibilities.

You Are:

• An experienced leader in Product Management with demonstrated business growth and customer adoption success in the CNAPP, data and AI security markets.


• A seasoned team leader with experience directly managing product management teams and mentoring talent into sustained high performers. 


• Passionate about GTM and have demonstrated success in developing GTM programs and achieving GTM targets with counterparts in sales, sales engineering, channels, marketing and customer success. 


• Excellent at cross-functional alignment and ensuring all partner organizations are fully aligned and committed to delivering what is needed to achieve roadmap and business goals.


• Highly skilled in pricing and packaging strategies to maximize revenue potential and strategic advantage.


• Highly customer-centric and a convincing champion of the needs of the customer to deliver a compelling, high value and high quality customer experience across all phases of the customer lifecycle


• Previously an software engineer, security engineer or have demonstrated technical knowledge to be able to discuss technical concepts with customers and engineering counterparts


• A compelling presenter with excellent verbal and written communication skills with a proven track record of presenting and defending your ideas to executive, technical and non-technical audiences, as well as external audiences including industry analysts.


• Highly data-driven with an advanced analytical aptitude that can draw critical insights through synthesizing market, competitive, usage, pipeline and other data sources.

Why You Should Apply: 

• Generous and competitive global and US benefits


• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan


• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities 


• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space


• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally


• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

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