Datadog - San Francisco, CA

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Manager
San Francisco, CA
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

As a member of Datadog's Technical Solutions team, you will play a crucial role in enabling the company's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring the success of existing customers. This position involves sharing your technical and product expertise through various channels, including multi-channel technical support, product demonstrations, and presentations. You will be joining a dynamic team and a company that values collaboration, creativity, and a strong office culture. Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace, allowing employees to create a work-life harmony that suits their individual needs. In this role, you will manage, develop, coach, and mentor a team of Technical Support Engineers (TSEs) who are responsible for responding to client requests, reproducing and troubleshooting issues, and exploring Datadog's extensive integrations. You will take ownership of your team's accountability and performance, working closely with upper management to facilitate performance reviews, performance plans, and address any employee relations issues that may arise. Additionally, you will ensure the successful training and onboarding of new hires, guiding them through technical training, certifications, and other learning and development opportunities. Your responsibilities will also include building out documentation and knowledge base articles for various technologies, driving projects or initiatives aimed at improving team productivity, processes, or procedures, and collaborating with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations. You will act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary, ensuring that the team operates efficiently and effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Manage, develop, coach, and mentor a team of Technical Support Engineers (TSEs).
  • Respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and explore Datadog's 600+ integrations.
  • Take ownership of team accountability and performance, partnering with upper management for performance reviews and plans.
  • Ensure successful training and onboarding of new hires.
  • Guide the team through technical training, certifications, and additional learning and development needs.
  • Build out documentation and knowledge base articles for various technologies.
  • Drive projects or initiatives to improve team productivity, processes, or procedures.
  • Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations.
  • Act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary.

Requirements

  • Previous experience leading a team in a Technical Support center, including managing other managers.
  • Self-motivated and detail-attentive with a desire for continuous learning.
  • Critical thinker with a client-centric approach.
  • Ability to work a rotating schedule that requires weekend availability.
  • Prior technical experience in SaaS products in Observability or related technologies.

Nice-to-haves

  • Passion for people management and mentorship.

Benefits

  • Best-in-breed onboarding
  • Generous global benefits
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Inclusive company culture with opportunities to join Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
  • Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
  • 401(k) plan and match
  • Paid time off
  • Fitness reimbursements
  • Discounted employee stock purchase plan
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