Joblaze summary

In the role of Senior Manager, Product Solutions Architecture at Datadog, the individual will focus on onboarding and enabling partner technical resources while driving successful technical initiatives. Key skills include a strong technical background in IT development or operations, along with experience in observability tools and public cloud platforms. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with 10-15 years in customer-facing technical roles, particularly those with a passion for technology and a knack for collaboration. Datadog fosters a culture of creativity and teamwork, operating as a hybrid workplace to support work-life balance.

Joblaze insights

Listed about 5 months ago — first seen on Joblaze May 29, 2026. Last confirmed on Datadog's careers page October 26, 2026.
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Quick facts

Is the Senior Manager, Product Solutions Architecture role remote?: It's hybrid — Datadog expects some on-site time in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Denver, Colorado, USA; New York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA.
What's the salary range?: Datadog lists $211,000–$309,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: 10–15 years of relevant experience for this Senior Manager, Product Solutions Architecture role.
Where is the role based?: Datadog is hiring for this position in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Denver, Colorado, USA; New York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Ansible, Azure, Chef, Docker, GCP.
What seniority level is this role?: Datadog targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Senior Manager, Product Solutions Architecture role at Datadog.

From the original posting

We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The technical solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. The Product Solution Architecture team works closely with Datadog customers, Datadog’s Product management, engineering and Tech Solutions teams to help architect and implement the Datadog Solution. The team has grown to cover more than 12 Product Categories and needs a highly motivated, results-oriented individual to help lead the team.

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:

Manage a team of expert individual contributors, working with Engineering and Product Management on their Product, who help create best practices for adoption of Datadog at scale.
Assist in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the team.
Mentor/coach new hires during on-boarding to ensure proper ramping of skills and capabilities
Ensure that your team is aligned to top company initiatives and enabled to work with various Datadog internal and external stakeholders
Deliver performance reviews along with collaborating on and executing individual development plans
Be a Trusted Advisor to Product Management by providing high quality feedback based on your field experience working closely with our Sales, Support, Partners and Customers
Offer guidance on architecture choices, data collection, and best practices to large Enterprise customers as they adopt these Datadog services across the organization
Participate in Executive Brief conversations with high profile customers and prospects about overall architecture, Observability Best Practices and industry trends

Who You Are:

10+ years of experience solving complex problems for customers and a strong knowledge of observability space.
5+ years of people management experience.
Experienced in interacting and influencing key stakeholders (VPs, C level) in large organizations
You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
Fluent in the monitoring market domain, competition, technological shifts and customer needs
Proven in your ability to grow and develop a team
Experienced in recruiting both individual contributors and front line leaders
Able to think strategically and creatively about a wide variety of challenges

Benefits and Growth:

Best-in-breed onboarding
Generous global benefits
Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

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.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$211,000—$281,000 USD

About Datadog:

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Senior Manager, Product Solutions Architecture

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