Manager II, Developer Advocacy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Lead and cultivate a team of Developer Advocates by establishing expectations, guiding priorities, coaching performance, supporting career advancement, and nurturing an inclusive, high-performing culture.

• Take ownership of the strategy, objectives, and roadmap for Community Advocacy.

• Guide the creation and development of Ambassador, Champion, and User Group programs.

• Construct repeatable systems that allow customer engineers to contribute technical expertise, create content, share best practices, and lead communities.

• Develop a pipeline of customer stories, assisting practitioners in crafting authentic and technically credible narratives.

• Supervise support, co-development, and coaching for conference presentations at both Datadog and third-party events.

• Set success metrics and assess program health, contributor engagement, content quality, audience impact, and customer outcomes.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Events, Customer Success, and regional teams.

• Share community insights with relevant internal Datadog teams.

• Balance strategic leadership with hands-on coaching, technical content review, community engagement, and representing Datadog.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven people manager with experience leading independent technical professionals, coaching performance, nurturing talent, and translating complex goals into actionable plans.

• Experience in defining and executing successful developer advocacy, developer relations, technical community, or similar functions.

• Background in building or significantly contributing to programs that enable external practitioners to engage, contribute, create content, or lead communities at scale.

• Proficient in assisting technical practitioners in developing and articulating their stories, including coaching conference speakers or co-developing technically credible presentations and content.

• Former software developer, SRE, or another technical practitioner, or possess equivalent technical depth.

• Sound judgment to evaluate technical accuracy and coach effective technical narratives.

• Capacity to build consensus, make prioritization decisions, and influence cross-functional partners.

• Ability to leverage data and community insights to assess program effectiveness and discover opportunities.

• Understanding of how to cultivate trust within technical communities and value authentic practitioner perspectives.

• Comfortable navigating through ambiguity, establishing structure, and evolving programs.

• Strong passion for technology and a willingness to enhance skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).

• Ongoing professional development, product training, and career advancement opportunities.

• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for internal networking.

• An inclusive company culture with the option to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups).

• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions.

• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents aged 6 and above.

• Competitive global benefits package.

• Comprehensive healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits.

• 401(k) plan with matching contributions.

• Generous paid time off.

• Fitness reimbursement program.

• Discounted employee stock purchase plan.