Product Solutions Architect - Product Analytics and Experimentation

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Boston, MA +3 · Product Solutions Architecture

This role is a Product Solutions Architect focused on Datadog's Digital Experience & Experimentation product family, which includes Product Analytics, Feature Flags, Experimentation, and Session Replay. The role involves partnering with field teams and customers to design architectures, implement best practices, and drive adoption. It also requires acting as a trusted advisor to Product Management by providing feedback from field experience and creating technical collateral and training materials. The role will also collaborate with other internal teams and build proofs of concept. The target audience for these products are product managers, digital experience teams, and product engineers building and optimizing customer-facing applications.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as an in-house subject matter expert for the Datadog Product Analytics, Feature Flags, Experimentation, and Session Replay and related products.
  2. Partner with field teams to offer guidance on architecture choices, SDK instrumentation, data collection, and best practices to large Enterprise customers as they adopt the product family.
  3. Act as a trusted advisor to Product Management by delivering actionable feedback informed by real-world field experience.
  4. Create high-impact technical collateral, including reference architectures, technical guides, cookbooks, and documentation to enable Field teams and the broader customer community.
  5. Build world class training material, solutions briefs, blogs, and documentation to the wider Datadog field technical teams over the latest product features and capabilities.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience solving complex problems for customers and a strong knowledge of building applications, specifically using product analytics, feature flagging, or digital experience tooling.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Familiarity with product analytics platforms and optimizing them for Enterprise level production usage (e.g. Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Heap, Contentsquare, FullStory, PostHog).
  • Fluent in the digital experience and product analytics market domain, competition, technological shifts, and customer needs related to feature flag management, experimentation, and session replay.
  • In-depth knowledge or experience with leveraging feature flag and experimentation tools (LaunchDarkly, Eppo, Split, Optimizely, etc.) and session replay platforms (FullStory, Contentsquare, Microsoft Clarity, etc.).
  • Ability to analyze Codebase and understands CI/CD, branch strategies and how that can influence Feature Flags.
  • Experience with commonly used web and mobile languages and frameworks such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Python, iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin, and file formats such as JSON and YAML.
  • Comfortable operating in rapidly evolving, ambiguous technical domains.
  • Ability to build deep context across teams and translate it into reusable, scalable solutions.
  • Ability to take ownership from problem definition through implementation and measurable outcomes.
  • Highly detail-oriented, particularly when working on architectures and customer-facing technical assets.
  • Strong listening and consultative skills and experienced supporting customers in high-pressure, complex situations.

Nice to have

  • Successful track record with 5+ years experience working as a Growth Engineering
  • Experience using Datadog and/or other observability tools with Product Analytics, or Feature Flags.
  • Proven experience deploying observability or analytics instrumentation in production environments at scale.
  • Background in experimentation program design, defining success metrics, guard rails, and statistical significance frameworks for A/B tests.
  • Experience with privacy-by-design and data governance for session replay, including PII masking, consent management, and data residency requirements in regulated industries.
  • Experience collaborating with open source projects and active engagement within associated communities.

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience solving complex problems for customers and a strong knowledge of building applications, specifically using product analytics, feature flagging, or digital experience tooling.
  • Fluent in the digital experience and product analytics market domain, competition, technological shifts, and customer needs related to feature flag management, experimentation, and session replay.
  • In-depth knowledge or experience with leveraging feature flag and experimentation tools (LaunchDarkly, Eppo, Split, Optimizely, etc.) and session replay platforms (FullStory, Contentsquare, Microsoft Clarity, etc.).