People Strategy, Engineering
DatadogCloud Monitoring company
New York, United States$162,000 - $216,000 USDSenior
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People / HR / Recruitment
About the role
TL;DR
Shape Engineering people strategy, focusing on talent, leadership, and AI integration.
- •This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who wants to actively shape how Engineering, one of the most important parts of how Datadog develops its people.
- •You'll own talent bets for Engineering end to end, from framing conversations with senior leaders through to delivering a program running at scale.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and lead complex talent programmes for Engineering, spanning leadership capability, career architecture, org design, performance, internal mobility and succession for critical roles.
- •Partner directly with PBPs and senior leaders to turn ambiguous problems into clear programme goals, design principles and success measures.
- •Help Engineering and People understand and respond to how AI is reshaping roles, skills and ways of working, and translate that shift into practical talent and org design choices.
- •Stay hands-on from concept through to adoption: this is a build and run role, not a strategy and handover role.
- •Evaluate impact using qualitative and quantitative data, and refine your approach based on what the business actually needs.
- •Requirements You have designed and delivered talent programs in a fast-growing, global organization, and partnered directly with executives on strategic people questions.
- •You are equally comfortable setting direction and getting into the detail, able to move from strategy to execution without handing work off prematurely.
- •You are data-fluent, pragmatic and outcome-focused, with a strong bias towards delivery and follow-through.
- •You build consensus, challenge constructively and stay credible across differing perspectives.
Required skills
Organizational DesignStrategic PlanningTalent AcquisitionPerformance ManagementChange ManagementCross-functional LeadershipExecutive Leadership
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
New hire stock equity (RSUs), Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing, Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program, Inclusive company culture, Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+, Competitive global benefits
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptSQLAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLinuxJiraConfluenceExcelWorkdayGreenhouseLeverOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChain