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Technical depth, product domain expertise, and AI systems literacy; knowing how AI solutions work, where they fail, and the scope and impact of those failures. AI brings more complexity into the picture - the technical bar is higher, not lower.
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Build the systems that reduce the need for coordination
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Identify what matters before anyone asks, and automate the rest
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Engineer program lifecycles end-to-end
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See what no single team can see and own the solution
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Drive the company's most technically complex and consequential bets through cross-functional agreement, organizational visibility, and influence
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Build AI powered automation tools and deploy them at every stage of program execution
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5+ years of technical program management at a high-growth technology company
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Demonstrated ability to drive large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs to completion with minimal direction
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Engineering credibility earned through hands-on experience with 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 and system design, push back on technical decisions, and hold your own in the room with staff engineers and senior ICs.
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Track record of earning trust with senior engineering and product leadership - not through title, through judgment
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Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable owning the narrative at VP+ levels
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Active AI practitioner, you use AI tools in your daily work and can demonstrate how they’ve changed your leverage
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You have built something, a tool, a template, an automated workflow, that other people use
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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