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# Vice President, People Business Partner at Datadog

- **Company:** Datadog
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $270k–$310k
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8335703/?gh_jid=8335703

## Job description

The team:

At Datadog, the People team works closely with leaders and employees to improve how we hire, develop, and support our people as the company grows. People Business Partners combine a strong understanding of the business with sound judgment, data, and People expertise to help leaders build effective organizations and maintain a high-performing culture.

The opportunity:

Datadog is seeking a global Vice President, People Business Partner to lead People support for our Engineering organization. This role will manage a team of People Business Partners, including people managers and individual contributors, and serve as a key partner to our CTO and Engineering leadership team.

You will set the direction for People Business Partnership across Engineering and help leaders anticipate the organizational and talent needs of a large, global technical organization. This role requires someone who can advise executives on complex decisions, lead through an experienced team, and ensure that priorities translate into practical plans and strong execution.

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’ll Do:

- Lead and develop a global team of People Business Partners, including people managers and individual contributors, setting clear priorities, expectations, and standards for the organization
- Serve as a trusted partner to the CTO and Engineering leadership team on organizational, leadership, and talent matters
- Develop a deep understanding of Datadog’s business, technology, Engineering organization, and the talent required to support its continued growth
- Help leaders design organizations that can scale, with clear leadership structures, roles, accountabilities, and decision-making
- Partner with Engineering leadership to continue driving the organization’s AI transformation, including how AI changes engineering work, technical capabilities, team design, and workforce needs
- Lead workforce and headcount planning across Engineering, including decisions related to organizational shape, level mix, critical capabilities, location, and allocation of talent
- Advise leaders on succession planning, leadership effectiveness, performance, compensation, retention, internal mobility, and employee engagement
- Anticipate organizational risks and talent needs, bringing forward clear recommendations before issues become barriers to the business
- Use people and business data to identify trends, test assumptions, and influence decisions across the Engineering organization
- Coach senior Engineering leaders as they build their organizations, navigate change, and strengthen the performance of their teams
- Ensure Engineering’s career paths, talent practices, and manager expectations remain clear, scalable, and connected to the needs of the organization
- Oversee complex and sensitive employee relations matters, balancing business needs, employee experience, consistency, and risk
- Partner with People Centers of Excellence and Recruiting to shape company programs and ensure they address the needs of a large, technically complex organization
- Ensure core People processes—including performance feedback, talent review, compensation, workforce planning, and engagement planning—are executed effectively across Engineering
- Identify systemic issues across the organization and develop scalable solutions rather than addressing the same problems team by team
- Strengthen the effectiveness of the PBP team by developing its leaders, removing barriers, and creating consistent ways of working
- Contribute as a member of the People leadership team and help shape broader People priorities and practices across Datadog

Who You are:

- An experienced People leader with at least 15 years of progressive HR or People Business Partner experience, including significant experience leading teams
- Experienced managing people managers and building strong, layered People Business Partner teams
- A trusted partner to C-level executives, with the judgment and credibility to influence significant organizational and talent decisions
- Experienced supporting a complex, global organization through periods of significant growth and change
- Experienced working with a large-scale Engineering organization; experience supporting a global Engineering population of several thousand employees is highly preferred
- Comfortable working with technical leaders and able to develop a strong understanding of Engineering organizations, talent, and operating models
- Deeply experienced in organizational design, workforce planning, executive succession, talent management, performance management, compensation, change management, and employee relations
- Able to connect business and technology priorities to clear people plans and drive execution through others
- Highly analytical and able to use data to identify patterns, challenge assumptions, and make practical recommendations
- Skilled at identifying systemic issues and developing solutions that can scale across a large organization
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and sensitive situations with sound judgment and calm
- A strong coach who can develop executives, senior leaders, people managers, and members of your own team
- Clear and direct in your communication, with the ability to influence while maintaining strong working relationships
- Able to operate at the executive level while remaining close enough to the organization to understand what is happening and where intervention is needed

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.

Benefits and Growth:

- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Best in breed onboarding
- Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

#LI-Hybrid Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $270,000—$310,000 USD

About Datadog:

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/datadoghq/?hl=en), [LinkedIn,](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog) and [Datadog Learning Center.](https://learn.datadoghq.com/)

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is proud to offer [equal employment opportunity](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our [Candidate Legal Notices](https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/candidate-legal-notices/) for your reference.

Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoJeduEZ2NdZF_65uZmWUrCM-zee7yADXX1s6Xr9zAGq8iKA/viewform). This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

Privacy and AI Guidelines:

Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s [Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/applicant-candidate-privacy/). For information on our AI policy, please visit [Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines](https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/interviewing-at-datadog-ai-guidelines/).

## About Datadog

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Datadog provides a unified cloud monitoring and security platform for developers, IT operations, and business teams to gain end-to-end visibility across their entire technology stack.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: DDOG)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Cloud monitoring, observability, application security, IT operations, DevOps
- **Target customers**: B2B – from SMBs to large enterprises, serving developers, IT operations, security teams, and business users
- **Mission/purpose**: “We are building the modern monitoring and security platform for developers, IT operations teams and business users in the cloud age.” [datadoghq.com](https://www.datadoghq.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Infrastructure Monitoring**: Metrics collection and visualization for servers, containers, cloud services, and hybrid environments.
- **APM (Application Performance Monitoring)**: Trace and optimize application performance end-to-end.
- **Log Management**: Centralized log ingestion, analysis, and exploration with sensitive data scanning and audit trail.
- **Security**: Unified security and observability – including Cloud SIEM, Application Security Management, and runtime detection to defend against AI-powered attacks. [datadoghq.com](https://www.datadoghq.com/product/security/)
- **Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)**: Synthetic monitoring (browser & API tests) and Real User Monitoring (RUM) for frontend performance.
- **Bits AI**: AI agents that chat, investigate, and remediate issues; includes Watchdog for proactive anomaly detection.
- **Network Monitoring**: Analyze network traffic patterns across cloud environments.
- **Service Management** and **Software Delivery**: Incident response, workflow automation, CI Visibility, DORA Metrics, and OpenTelemetry support.
- **Database Monitoring** and **Data Streams Monitoring**: Deep visibility into databases and streaming pipelines.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: ~$39.9 billion (as of mid-2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog)
- **Key Metric**: FY2025 annual revenue of $3.43 billion [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures (led Series C), with total funding of ~$1.67 billion including IPO proceeds. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Recognized as a Leader in the **Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms** and for **Digital Experience Monitoring**; also named a Leader in **The Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q2 2025**. [datadoghq.com](https://www.datadoghq.com/)
  - Headcount grew to approximately **10,100 employees** by April 2026 (up from ~8,100+ reported earlier). [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026)
  - Maintains a strong Glassdoor rating of **4.2/5.0**, with ~80% of employees recommending to a friend. [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform**: Combines infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, and security in a single solution – reducing tool sprawl.
- **AI-native capabilities**: Bits AI agents and Watchdog provide automated root-cause analysis, remediation, and proactive insights.
- **Industry recognition**: Consistently placed as a Leader in multiple analyst quadrants (Gartner, Forrester), validating product quality and market presence.
- **Scale and ecosystem**: 700+ integrations, a rich marketplace, and broad support for OpenTelemetry and other open standards.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI and automation**: Deep investment in AI-driven features (Bits AI, Watchdog, automated remediation) to reduce toil and improve mean-time-to-resolution.
- **Security observability**: Extending the platform to unify security and observability – a key differentiator as threats become more complex.
- **Global expansion**: Growing employee presence across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific (53 countries) to serve a widening customer base. [careers.datadoghq.com](https://careers.datadoghq.com/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Transparent, inclusive, and engineering-driven. Diversity and inclusion are core values, with active Employee Resource Groups. [careers.datadoghq.com](https://careers.datadoghq.com/)
- **Flexibility**: Operates a flexible work environment supporting remote, hybrid, and office cultures – “Innovation happens everywhere”. [careers.datadoghq.com](https://careers.datadoghq.com/)
- **Benefits**: Generous benefits tailored by region, covering physical, mental, and financial wellness. [careers.datadoghq.com](https://careers.datadoghq.com/)
- **Growth**: 454 open positions globally (as of mid-2026) across engineering, sales, product, marketing, and technical solutions – with opportunities to work on cutting-edge observability and AI challenges. [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026)
- **Ratings**: CEO Olivier Pomel enjoys ~87% approval; overall Glassdoor rating is 4.2/5.0 (Work-Life 3.8, Compensation 3.9, Culture 4.0). [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026)

## Sources
1. [datadoghq.com](https://www.datadoghq.com/)
2. [careers.datadoghq.com](https://careers.datadoghq.com/)
3. [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog)

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