Senior Product Marketing Manager (Platform Messaging)

New York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA

We are seeking a creative storytelling Senior PMM of Platform Messaging to own a new function at Datadog, creating compelling and consistent messaging for our product portfolio. This person has a love for understanding technology and building narratives and presentations for unique buyers. This role will own our new business sales deck, overall platform level messaging and help with customer facing presentations for events. 

The ideal candidate is a natural product marketer who can understand our technical product portfolio and create highly relevant messaging to both users (developers) and executives. This person is highly collaborative and can tie together product stories from across multiple product lines. 

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:

  • Own the Datadog New Business sales deck, including ongoing updates based on product and sales needs. 
  • Create persona profiles and content for multiple personas, mapping the persona to relevant challenges and products. 
  • Oversee content creation for Datadog Summit event series and DASH customer conference including multiple product sessions and keynotes. 
  • Create and maintain Datadog platform messaging guide, ensuring consistency and relevancy in all messaging, from product marketing to event signage, website, demand gen copy and beyond. 
  • Understand and articulate the Datadog platform advantage, including our underlying infrastructure and unique company differentiators
  • Create processes and procedures for approvals, distribution, alignment and more. 

Who You Are:

  • An experienced marketing professional with 5+ years of relevant experience in product marketing
  • An exceptional writer and storyteller. You love agonizing over every word on a slide to get the perfect messaging
  • Highly collaborative and able to drive cross functional project across an extended team
  • Technical to understand the Datadog product portfolio and our developer audience. 
  • [probably add something about having marketed to devs before]

Bonus Points:

  • MBA or an advanced CS degree
  • Prior experience in monitoring, using Datadog or a similar product
  • You’ve had professional experience in development, product management, sales engineering or another technical role

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

  • Generous and competitive benefits package
  • 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
  • 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:
$154,000—$205,000 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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Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.

Requisition ID: R12183