Senior Product Manager (Datadog)

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to join our dynamic team. The Senior Product Manager is a seasoned professional responsible for driving the strategic vision, development, and success of product initiatives within an organization. This role combines deep product expertise with leadership and collaboration skills to ensure the delivery of high-value products that meet customer needs and business objectives.

This Senior Product Manager will operate with significant autonomy, leading cross-functional teams and influencing product decisions across the organization. They focus on developing the executing product strategies, analyzing market trends, and making data-driven decisions to guide product development.

What you will do:

Mentor and guide product managers and other team members, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning.
• the Senior Product Manager for Cloud Observability, you'll own the vision, roadmap, and execution for observability on AWS.
• Will work closely with a diverse set of stakeholders to understand how Datadog can better observe, govern, and operate their cloud-based applications.
• Partner and DevOps teams to streamline the product development lifecycle, from planning to deployment.
• Ensure alignment on technical feasibility, scalability, and reliability of product features.
• Work closely with Principal Engineers to align product vision with technical strategy.
• Collaborate on high-level architectural decisions that impact product scalability and long-term success.
• Build relationships with other Datadog Subject Matter Experts and identify new opportunities to broaden product portfolio.
• Implement and refine agile methodologies to enhance team productivity and product quality. Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Monitors launch and post-launch progress
• Reviewing and prioritizing product requirements;

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience or 9 years of experience and a HS Degree/Diploma.
• Sharp critical thinking and analytical skills to assess market opportunities, evaluate product performance, and make data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across diverse teams and external stakeholders.
• Strategic thinking to anticipate future challenges and opportunities in product development and market trends.
• Ability to balance short-term needs with long-term product vision and scalability goals.
• End-to-end ownership of the product(s) from the development lifecycle (i.e., ideation to release) and lifecycle management to grow the business (analytics, usage, strategy)
• Defining the vision and business strategy for new products.
• Must have experience in Identifying and tracking KPIs and using them as a cornerstone for communicating to stakeholders, and the teams focus and priorities. Can communicate technical requirements as needed (i.e., understand the tech behind the product well).
• Gain an in-depth understanding of customers and users, gathering key insights that will shape the product experience. Balancing those with the limitations defined by key stakeholders.
• Proficiency in product management tools and methodologies, including agile frameworks.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust 6C clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in product design or engineering
• Active Public Trust

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.