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Director, Engineering - Graphing and Visualization

Datadog · New York, New York, USA · On-site

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About Datadog

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About the role

Graphing and Data Visualization is the organization responsible for how customers explore, analyze, and visualize complex data across our product. You will lead a global team spanning graphing, dashboards, data visualization, notebooks, search experiences, and emerging AI-powered interfaces, partnering closely with Product and Design to make complex data intuitive and actionable. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • An experienced engineering leader who has led a large, multi-team engineering organization and developed engineering managers and senior technical leaders
  • A strong partner to Product and Design, with experience making technical and product decisions where usability, visual quality, and engineering architecture are closely connected
  • Technically grounded, with a computer science or equivalent technical background and the ability to engage deeply on software architecture, performance, and systems tradeoffs
  • Experience building performant product experiences and solving engineering challenges involving large or complex datasets, responsive interfaces, or computationally intensive workflows
  • Interested in how AI-assisted development and agent-based interfaces are changing the way users create, explore, and interact with software and data
More about this role

Graphing and Data Visualization is the organization responsible for how customers explore, analyze, and visualize complex data across our product. You will lead a global team spanning graphing, dashboards, data visualization, notebooks, search experiences, and emerging AI-powered interfaces, partnering closely with Product and Design to make complex data intuitive and actionable. You will shape the technical and organizational strategy for experiences that help a broad range of users work effectively with their data, including new ways for AI agents to create consistent, high quality Datadog experiences. This is an opportunity to lead a highly specialized engineering organization whose work reaches across the Datadog product while advancing how customers interact with increasingly complex data.

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.

  • Lead the Graphing and Data Visualization engineering organization, setting technical and organizational direction across graphing, dashboards,...

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