Director of Staff

Datadog continues to grow at a very rapid clip in all dimensions (customers, staff, and revenue). We are looking for a Director of Staff to the VP of Business Recruiting to ensure our ambitious recruiting team roadmap moves forward swiftly to meet the needs of our hyper growth as we scale.  

As our first-ever staff leader to the VP Business Recruiting, you’ll be focused on identifying and leading key topics, making the organization more efficient, and enhancing project delivery. Your role will be to ensure that information, decisions, and processes are enhanced and more effective as we scale.

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:

• 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
• Guarantee that internal meetings are well-run
• 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
• Support the development and implementation of our recruiting roadmap

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.

Who You Are:

• 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 and Growth: 

• Generous and competitive global and US benefits
• 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.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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