Technical Program Manager II (AI)

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

Salary: $145,600–$182,000 USD per year, plus equity and possible variable compensation

Company

Datadog develops observability and monitoring products for technology environments.

What you will do

• Own large cross-functional programs spanning engineering organizations, product, and business functions.
• Identify systemic risks, dependencies, and organizational friction before they become escalations.
• Build SVP-level visibility through KPIs for high-priority initiatives.
• Engineer AI-powered automation for risk synthesis, dependency tracking, stakeholder mapping, templates, and program lifecycles.
• Lead deep technical, cross-functional, product delivery, and operational programs through completion.
• Make judgment calls on escalation, execution pace, and technical decisions with organizational impact.

Requirements

• 3+ years of technical program management experience at a high-growth technology company.
• Experience driving large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs to completion with minimal direction.
• Hands-on technical depth in observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or AI/ML systems, including model training pipelines, ML infrastructure, and GPU compute.
• Ability to discuss architecture and system design and collaborate credibly with staff engineers and senior individual contributors.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ownership of narratives at VP+ level.
• Active use of AI tools and experience building tools, templates, or automated workflows used by others.

Nice to have

• Experience identifying systemic problems and building operating systems to solve them.
• Experience automating program lifecycles or workflows that previously required manual coordination.
• Experience managing programs with unit economics implications such as cloud cost, capacity, or margin.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration and office culture.
• New hire stock equity, an employee stock purchase plan, and competitive benefits.
• Professional development, product training, career pathing, a TPM mentor, and an engineering buddy program.
• Inclusive culture, employee resource groups, team summits, and local office programming.
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, and fitness reimbursements.