Senior Talent Manager - New York

New York, New York, USA

Datadog is seeking an experienced manager to join our growing Talent Management team. This is a new role reporting to the Director, Talent Management. It provides the opportunity to have immediate impact, fully owning key pillars of work (such as performance, talent review, career growth, internal mobility). The role also has scope for you to develop your career with us – Datadog has experienced exponential growth year-over-year and has no plans to stop.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture – the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do

  • Fully own the design, development, and delivery of company-wide talent initiatives at Datadog, with an initial focus on Internal Mobility.
  • Stand-up new programs to support Datadog’s rapid growth, with a focus on Career Growth.
  • Create and implement Internal Mobility policies and procedures to encourage employee movement.
  • Analyze Internal Mobility data to track trends, measure the effectiveness of programs, and make data-driven recommendations.
  • Provide expert guidance to People Business Partners, CoEs and leaders from all business areas.
  • Solve complex problems, working across internal stakeholders to build consensus and keep making progress.
  • Evaluate program effectiveness and refine offerings based on employee feedback, result metrics, and company priorities. 
  • Research, recommend, and implement new tools and systems to help our programs and initiatives scale. 
  • Consult with SMEs to help them develop and deliver their own high-quality talent programs as needed. 
  • Work closely with and enable PBPs; your partnership will allow them to have maximal impact across all of Datadog.
  • Actively manage a full portfolio of talent initiatives across the company. 

Who You Are

  • A specialist/manager with 7+ years in Talent Management, Career Growth, and Internal Mobility; or a Senior People Business Partner with a strong background in this area of specialization.
  • Experienced across different pillars of Talent Management including internal mobility, career growth, career pathing, performance management, handling low performance, succession planning. 
  • Highly adaptable, with the ability to respond to changes in operational pace.
  • Able to understand end-to-end processes and successfully operate when multiple teams are involved to deliver large projects across the organization.
  • A problem solver, applying good judgment to put forward solutions, especially when the right thing to do is not immediately clear.
  • Comfortable operating with ambiguity and changing priorities – our work requires us to be highly iterative and responsive to feedback.
  • Comfortable delivering content to different audiences, and adapt your style accordingly.
  • You communicate with precision and clarity.
  • Experience with Workday and Greenhouse a plus.

Benefits and Growth:

  • Generous and competitive benefits package
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous career development opportunities 
  • Product training to develop understanding of our product and space
  • Best in breed onboarding
  • Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$150,000—$215,000 USD

About Datadog: 

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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Requisition ID: R10886