Senior Manager of Staff, Tech Recruiting

Datadog - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The Senior Manager will serve as Chief of Staff to the VP of Tech Recruiting, focusing on advancing the recruiting team's roadmap to support the company's growth. This role involves project delivery, leadership development, and enhancing processes and communication within the tech recruiting organization.

Responsibilities

• Be a sounding board to the VP and Recruiting leaders on new ideas and roadmaps
• Make prioritization and decision-making more efficient and well-understood
• Sub in for any interim gaps in leadership to carry hiring forward
• Drive quarterly goal planning (OKR) alignment and execution in collaboration with the recruiting leaders
• Develop project management and regular best practices across the leadership team
• Monitor progress, follow through on action items, help pick owners and provide project management for the execution of plans
• Own key rhythm of business across tech recruiting (leadership meetings, quarterly all hands meetings, promotion calibrations, global tech recruiting summits, OKRs, Roundtables, etc.)
• Deal with complex issues and ambiguous situations; reduce them to their simplest expression and drive for clear outcomes
• Ensure solid recruiting budget management (headcount as well as spending)
• Ensure flawless communication strategy and engagement on all priorities
• Amplify the VP's communication internally and raise topics to her
• Build strong performance management culture, KPI planning and global success metrics across recruiting organization

Requirements

• A recruiting professional with 15+ years of successful recruiting experience in-house and experience leading leaders
• Excellent at project management experience, driving projects to completion
• Experienced in operationalizing process improvements
• Great at leading and implementing change by understanding how organizations work and getting things over the finish line
• Highly organized, proactive, and efficient
• A critical thinker with demonstrated ability to find and weave data into the decision-making process, in order to simplify problems
• Someone with great interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with the leadership team and across the company
• Strong analytically in Excel and data analysis

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Variable compensation
• Healthcare benefits
• Dental benefits
• Parental planning benefits
• Mental health benefits
• 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan