Product Manager II - Application Performance Monitoring

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Product Manager II for Application Performance Monitoring at Datadog, you will play a key role in shaping the future of Distributed Tracing, Performance Analysis, and Intelligent Troubleshooting. You will work closely with world-class engineers, designers, and partner product teams to develop advanced capabilities that scale to thousands of customers and make sophisticated observability workflows accessible to every engineer, from experts to beginners. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Product Manager II, your primary responsibilities will include: - Developing a deep understanding of APM customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and competitors - Leading conversations with design partners and strategic customers to uncover real-world performance issues, validate product assumptions, and guide solutions from early prototypes through General Availability - Defining and delivering the next generation of APM features with engineering and design, especially agentic onboarding and the out of the box experience, AI-driven troubleshooting and root-cause analysis - Making complex performance data, traces, and systems behavior understandable and actionable, even for engineers who are new to observability - Driving discussions with engineers, design, and other PM teams by providing clearly articulated problem statements to deliver seamless cross-product experiences and unified investigative workflows - Partnering with marketing, sales, customer success, support, and other cross-functional groups to define Go-To-Market for your features - Tracking adoption, retention, and measuring impact for your product and iterating rapidly based on data and customer conversations WHAT YOU'LL NEED To succeed in this role, you will need: - 3-5 years of experience as a Product Manager, ideally working on a developer-focused SaaS or infrastructure product - Experience working on production-level AI projects, from conception through launch and iteration, ideally involving ML-driven insights, automated workflows, or intelligent guidance in complex systems - Prior engineering experience or deep expertise in modern software development and distributed systems - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to present and defend product decisions to cross-functional stakeholders - A customer-focused, detail-oriented, and committed to high-quality standards approach - Experience in fast-moving, high-growth environments and the ability to scale mature products and build new ones from the ground up - Familiarity with cloud applications, distributed tracing, performance analysis, microservices, or profiling technologies; fluency in programming languages WHY REMOTE Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. This role is open to remote candidates, and we value people from all walks of life. BENEFITS Datadog offers a range of benefits to support your growth and well-being, including: - New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) - Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing - Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking - An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds - Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions - Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ - Competitive global benefits