Datadog
Principal Program Manager, Technical Product Learning – Technical Solutions Enablement
The Principal Program Manager, Technical Product Learning will define and scale Datadog’s product enablement strategy for Technical Solutions, ensuring technical field teams have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to support and position our rapidly evolving product portfolio. This highly cross-functional role partners closely with Product Management, Product Marketing, Technical Solutions leadership, and subject matter experts to translate product strategy, roadmaps, and launches into impactful learning experiences. From early roadmap awareness through field rollout, you will help drive readiness, adoption, and long-term product expertise across the organization. The ideal candidate brings deep technical credibility, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and a track record of leading complex programs that influence business outcomes at scale.
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:
- Define and execute the product enablement strategy for Technical Solutions teams, aligning learning priorities with product roadmaps, launches, and business objectives
- Partner with Product Management, Product Marketing, Technical Solutions Operations, and field leadership to translate product changes into scalable enablement plans and field readiness programs
- Design and deliver blended learning experiences including onboarding, everboarding, certifications, live training, hands-on labs, sandbox environments, and on-demand resources
- Lead cross-functional stakeholder groups, including ownership of the Product Steering Committee, to drive enablement prioritization, feedback collection, adoption, and continuous improvement
- Develop scalable approaches for introducing new products, acquisitions, and emerging technologies while equipping teams with the technical knowledge and customer-facing positioning needed for success
- Measure program effectiveness through data-driven analysis and provide strategic recommendations that improve learning outcomes, operational efficiency, and business impact
Who You Are:
- Deeply familiar with Datadog products, platform capabilities, and customer use cases, with experience operating in a technical customer-facing environment
- Experienced in Technical Solutions, technical enablement, product management, product marketing, solutions architecture, sales engineering, or a related technical function
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and earn trust with Director-level and above leadership across multiple organizations
- Skilled at translating complex technical concepts into engaging and effective learning experiences for technical audiences
- Experienced partnering with subject matter experts to build certifications, hands-on labs, live training programs, and scalable technical learning resources
- A highly collaborative, accountable, and strategic communicator who independently drives complex cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know 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 experience, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- Shape the technical readiness strategy for a global organization supporting one of the industry’s leading observability and security platforms
- Partner closely with Product Management and Product Marketing teams to influence how new innovations are introduced to the field
- Build expertise across observability, security, cloud platforms, AI, and emerging technologies
- Lead high-impact initiatives with visibility across executive, product, and go-to-market leadership teams
- Develop advanced program leadership, stakeholder management, and organizational influence skills
- Help define the future of technical learning and enablement at Datadog
- Access professional development opportunities that support long-term career growth at Datadog
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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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.
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog 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 other characteristics protected by law. 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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