Manager I, Engineering - Applied AI/ML Product Analytics Suite

Job summary

Responsibilities

As the Engineering Manager for this team, you’ll lead a team of Applied Scientists through an early-stage, high-impact opportunity: defining the team’s technical vision, growing its footprint, and shaping how AI capabilities get built and delivered across the suite.

• Lead and grow a team of Applied Scientists researching, prototyping, and industrializing AI/ML capabilities across the suite
• Define the technical vision and roadmap for the suite’s agentic and proactive AI/ML capabilities: event understanding, conversational analytics, insight reporting, and…
• Stay hands-on as a technical contributor and reviewer, helping the team move from research prototypes to production-grade capabilities
• Shape how AI capabilities get built and delivered across the suite, partnering closely with product and engineering leadership
• Hire and onboard Applied Scientists as Datadog scales its investment in applied AI/ML

What they're looking for

• An experienced technical leader with a background in applied AI/ML, ideally with hands-on research or applied science experience of your own
• A people manager, whether established or early in your management journey, backed by strong technical credibility
• Comfortable operating in greenfield ambiguity: defining direction and structure where little exists yet, rather than executing against an established roadmap
• Experience taking ML/AI capabilities from research prototype to production, ideally in an analytics, NLP, or user-behavior domain
• A clear communicator who can translate technical AI/ML concepts for product and engineering stakeholders