Datadog · 23 hours ago
Product Manager II - Semantic & Agentic Search AI
New York, New York, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$165K/yr - $215K/yrDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on enabling digital transformation and cloud monitoring. The Product Manager for Semantic & Agentic Search will own the product vision and roadmap, ensuring user intent is captured and translated into high-quality interactions across the platform, while collaborating with various teams to enhance AI-driven search experiences.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Own the product vision and roadmap for Semantic Search, Natural Language Querying, and agentic search experiences across the Datadog platform
Define how user intent is captured, classified, and routed to the correct data sources, tools, or workflows
Partner closely with Applied Science and Engineering to design and ship intent models, semantic retrieval systems, ranking strategies, and iterative search behaviors that can invoke tools and refine results
Drive improvements in query interpretation, disambiguation, relevance, and recall for AI-powered search, NLQ experiences, including those used within agent-driven workflows
Establish success metrics for intent accuracy, query execution rate, result relevance, latency, and user trust
Serve as the point of accountability for semantic and agentic search across Datadog, aligning multiple product teams on shared intent, relevance, and quality standards
Conduct deep customer research to understand how users express intent, where NLQ fails today, and how semantic systems can better support exploratory workflows
Evangelize best practices for building AI-driven search and intent systems internally, contributing to shared platform standards
Qualification
Required
An experienced Product Manager, ideally with experience in search, ML-powered products, developer tools, or data platforms
Technically fluent, with a working understanding of NLP, embeddings, semantic search, ranking, and retrieval-augmented systems
Comfortable working closely with data scientists and engineers to translate modeling tradeoffs into product decisions
Strong communicator who can articulate complex AI behaviors to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Customer-obsessed, with a strong intuition for how users express intent and evaluate 'good' search results
Curious, analytical, and motivated by improving the everyday experience of engineers interacting with complex systems
Benefits
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Competitive global benefits
Healthcare
Dental
Parental planning
Mental health benefits
A 401(k) plan and match
Paid time off
Fitness reimbursements
A discounted employee stock purchase plan
Company
Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
Founded in 2010
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthIndex VenturesOpenView
2024-12-09Post Ipo Debt· $870M
2020-05-28Post Ipo Debt
2019-09-19IPO
Leadership Team
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder, CEO
Alexis Le-Quoc
Co-founder & CTO
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