Director, Engineering - Graphing and Visualization (AI)

Location: New York, New York, USA; hybrid workplace

Salary: $296,000–$370,000 USD yearly, plus equity and potential variable compensation.

Company

Datadog provides an observability and security platform for the AI era, unifying applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security to help businesses manage complexity at scale.

What you will do

• Lead the Graphing and Data Visualization engineering organization across graphing, dashboards, notebooks, search, and data exploration experiences.
• Set technical and organizational direction for performant, consistent, high-quality visualization systems, frameworks, and interfaces.
• Develop engineering managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders across a large multi-team organization.
• Partner with Product and Design to make complex, high-volume data understandable and actionable for users with different needs and technical backgrounds.
• Advance AI-powered experiences, enabling agents and conversational interfaces to create graphs, visualizations, and dynamic data experiences.
• Influence product and engineering strategy through expertise in visualization, performance, user experience, and large-scale product engineering.

Requirements

• Experience leading a large, multi-team engineering organization and developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
• Experience leading teams responsible for data-intensive products, visualization platforms, analytics, business intelligence, notebooks, or products where presenting complex information clearly is central to the user experience.
• Strong partnership experience with Product and Design, including technical and product decisions connecting usability, visual quality, and engineering architecture.
• Computer science or equivalent technical background, with the ability to engage deeply on software architecture, performance, and systems tradeoffs.
• Experience building performant product experiences and solving challenges involving large or complex datasets, responsive interfaces, or computationally intensive workflows.
• Interest in AI-assisted development and agent-based interfaces and how they are changing the way users create, explore, and interact with software and data.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace emphasizing office relationships, collaboration, creativity, and work-life harmony.
• New-hire stock equity, ESPP, healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and other competitive benefits.
• Continuous professional development, product training, career pathing, and an intradepartmental mentor and buddy program.
• Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks.
• Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents aged 6 and above.
• Benefits may vary based on the country of employment and the nature of employment.