Manager II, Developer Advocacy

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Developer Advocates, setting clear expectations, guiding priorities, coaching performance, supporting career growth, and fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture
• Own the strategy, goals, and roadmap for Community Advocacy, translating broader Advocacy and company priorities into focused programs and measurable outcomes
• Guide the continued development of our Ambassador
• Champion, and User Group programs, creating clear contributor journeys, expectations, enablement, recognition, and opportunities for customer engineers to increase their impact
• Build repeatable systems that enable customer engineers to contribute technical knowledge, create content, share best practices, and serve as trusted leaders within their communities
• Develop a strong pipeline of customer stories by identifying compelling practitioners and helping them shape authentic, technically credible narratives
• Oversee the support, co-development, and coaching of conference talks by customer engineers—from identifying an idea and developing an abstract through content review, rehearsal, and delivery—for Datadog events, including our flagship user conference, DASH, as well as third-party industry conferences
• Establish measures of success for Community Advocacy, using qualitative and quantitative insights to evaluate program health, contributor engagement, content quality, audience impact, and customer outcomes
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Events, Customer Success, and regional teams to align priorities, identify opportunities, and scale customer participation across Datadog initiatives
• Ensure insights from Ambassadors, Champions, User Group participants, speakers, and other community members are shared with the appropriate teams inside Datadog, strengthening the connection between our customers and our products

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