Senior Product Manager - Application Performance Monitoring

Job description

At Datadog, we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale, enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. APM at Datadog is on its way to redefine how users interact with their telemetry. We are integrating intelligence directly into troubleshooting workflows to help engineers find root causes faster, navigate complex distributed systems seamlessly, and optimize application performance with minimal cognitive load. APM provides deep visibility from end-user interactions to backend services and we are now expanding this foundation with new AI-driven insights, guidance, and automation. As a Senior Product Manager for APM, you will own product strategy and drive execution across Distributed Tracing, Performance Analysis, and Intelligent Troubleshooting. You will set direction for a critical area of the roadmap, work closely with senior engineering and design leadership, and influence how APM evolves across the broader observability platform. You'll be relied on to make sound, independent product judgment calls with limited oversight, mentor other product managers, and represent APM in cross-org and executive conversations. 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 will Do: Own the product strategy and long-term vision for a core area of APM, grounded in deep understanding of customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and the competitive landscape Lead strategic conversations with design partners and key customers to uncover complex performance issues, validate product bets, and guide solutions from early prototypes through General Availability Define and drive delivery of the next generation of APM features with engineering and design leadership, especially agentic onboarding and the out-of-the-box experience, AI-driven troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis <li data-local-id="236004471df