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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Technical Program Manager - **Company:** Datadog - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $184,000.0 - $230,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Build Automation, Datadog, Data Management, Machine Learning Operations - **Published:** August 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8141670/?gh_jid=8141670 ## About the Role * 5+ years of technical program management at a high-growth technology company * Demonstrated ability to drive large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs to completion with minimal direction * Engineering credibility earned through hands-on experience with technically complex domains — observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or AI/ML systems including model training pipelines, ML infrastructure, and GPU compute. You can go deep on architecture and system design, push back on technical decisions, and hold your own in the room with staff engineers and senior ICs. * Track record of earning trust with senior engineering and product leadership - not through title, through judgment * Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable owning the narrative at VP+ levels * Active AI practitioner, you use AI tools in your daily work and can demonstrate how they’ve changed your leverage * You have built something, a tool, a template, an automated workflow, that other people use Strong Signal * You identified a systemic problem no one asked you to find and built the operating system to solve it * You automated a program lifecycle or workflow that previously required manual coordination * You have operated in observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or AI/ML environments and can speak to the technical architecture, not just the program execution * You have managed programs with real unit economics implications - cloud cost, capacity, margin Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. ## Description * Technical depth, product domain expertise, and AI systems literacy; knowing how AI solutions work, where they fail, and the scope and impact of those failures. AI brings more complexity into the picture - the technical bar is higher, not lower. * Build the systems that reduce the need for coordination * Identify what matters before anyone asks, and automate the rest * Engineer program lifecycles end-to-end * See what no single team can see and own the solution * Drive the company's most technically complex and consequential bets through cross-functional agreement, organizational visibility, and influence * Build AI powered automation tools and deploy them at every stage of program execution What You'll Do: See Across: Identify What No Single Team Can See * Own large cross-functional programs spanning multiple engineering orgs, product, and business functions * Proactively surface systemic risks, cross-pod dependencies, and organizational friction before they become escalations * Build and maintain SVP-level visibility through tracked KPIs on Datadog’s highest-priority initiatives * Uses technical credibility, trusted relationships, and product domain expertise to bridge the gaps between functions where misalignment is expensive Engineer Away: Automate What Shouldn’t Require Humans * Identify repeatable program archetypes and engineer the lifecycle end-to-end with AI solutions; the goal is to make the program run itself * Build automation that reduces the need for coordination, eliminating program overhead so engineers and PMs spend time only on work requiring human judgment * Contribute to the TPM toolkit: AI-powered risk synthesis, dependency tracking, stakeholder mapping, and program templates * Drive the shift from manual coordination to self-executing program infrastructure Drive Completion: Move The Company’s Most Complex Bets Forward * Lead programs across four archetypes: deep technical, large cross-functional, product delivery, and operational * Accelerate alignment by removing friction and overhead, not by adding process. * Hold the judgment call on when to escalate, when to slow down, when a technical decision has organizational implications * Own outcomes, not activities - your value is measured by what ships and what never had the chance to become a problem ## Related Videos - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [The perfect CI/CD React Native pipeline with Fastlane](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/556-the-perfect-ci-cd-react-native-pipeline-with-fastlane) - [It's all about the Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/425-it-s-all-about-the-data) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [Data Science, ML & AI in the Oil and Gas Industry at NDT Global - Dr. Katja Träumner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1308-data-science-ml-ai-in-the-oil-and-gas-industry-at-ndt-global-dr-katja-traumner) - [Give your build some love, it will give it back!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/514-give-your-build-some-love-it-will-give-it-back) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Dev Digest 150 - The shift to AI generated code, fingerprinting and OKRs vs. doing your job](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/533-dev-digest-150-the-shift-to-ai-generated-code-fingerprinting-and-okrs-vs-doing-your-job) - [MLOps – What’s the deal behind it?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/125-mlops-what-s-the-deal-behind-it) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)