Product Operations Manager

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · New York, NY · Product Management

Product Operations Manager at Datadog, focused on building and scaling processes, frameworks, and cross-functional workflows to enable product teams to ship effectively. This role involves driving launch readiness, managing product communications, centralizing product knowledge, incorporating customer feedback, and refining core product operations processes within a B2B SaaS environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and drive operational excellence for product launches. This includes coordinating across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Support to ensure we are ready to bring quality products and support to our customers.
  2. Build and maintain a single source of truth for launches giving cross-functional partners real-time visibility into what's shipping, when, and what's needed from each team.
  3. Lead product-wide communications and operational support for major moments including major conferences, all-hands meetings, and cross-functional forums. You'll also need to be comfortable representing Product Operations to leadership.
  4. Drive centralized product knowledge and enablement, ensuring PMs and stakeholders have the tools, resources, templates, and context they need to succeed and making it easily discoverable.
  5. Incorporate customer voice into the product development process by mining our customer feedback tools for high signal insights. Then partnering with PMs to drive inclusion in their product planning.
  6. Build, refine, and scale core product operations processes. At its core this is meeting with stakeholders, identifying shared pain points and solving them for a distributed product org. You'll create the repeatable frameworks that let Datadog operate consistently across 30+ products.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience in product operations, program management, or a related operational role.
  • Experience collaborating across multiple departments (Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, etc.) and aligning stakeholders with different priorities toward shared outcomes.
  • Experience communicating with and presenting to senior leadership at the Director+ level, both in writing and live settings.
  • Hands-on experience with product management tools and workflows (Jira, Confluence, or similar), with a willingness to build and improve tooling as needs evolve.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence rather than authority, building trust and driving outcomes across teams you don't directly manage.

Nice to have

  • Experience in a B2B SaaS or high-growth technology company.
  • Experience in multiple functions (sales, engineering, product, operations, etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • Track record of designing and implementing scalable, repeatable processes that drive adoption, not just documentation that sits on a shelf.
  • Experience working in ambiguous environments where you've had to define the approach, prove out value quickly, and iterate, not just maintain an existing playbook.