Program Manager - Community Content and Events (EMEA)

At Datadog we’re growing our community focused events Datadog Summits, DASH, and our in-office Meetups and User Groups, to enable us to deliver events, and content to our global audience. As we scale these programs we’re looking to hire a Program Manager on our Community team to support our content and advocacy team efforts across these events, and other sponsored events in the EMEA region.

The Datadog Technical Advocacy teams are focused on our local user communities, and bringing our technical content directly to our customers globally. You’ll be responsible for planning and execution to deliver on regional events in EMEA, working across multiple teams at Datadog to ensure our event is high quality and a positive experience for our customers.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do

Planning and delivering technical programming for local and regional events, ensuring we are able to scale these sustainably

Tracking deadlines and deliverables for our content and events, including digital and physical assets, and working with vendors and procurement teams as needed to ensure event success

Identifying and resolving risks and blockers for our event programming

Maintaining our internal tools and public website for event agenda and speaker content

Owning our onsite speaker experience for both internal and customer speakers

Managing event programming onsite, coordinating rehearsals, staffing, and ensuring smooth onsite operations

Collaborate closely with our Community teams, external stakeholders, and the VP of Community

Create and refine processes; maintain focus on continual improvements, automation and scaling

Communicate goals, status, risks, and impact to teams and stakeholders ensuring alignment and visibility of information across teams.

Who You Are

You have approximately 2-5 years of experience in program management, leading similar initiatives such as large scale conferences and related programs within a similar technical environment (B2B SaaS company), partnering closely with technical stakeholders

You have experience working collaboratively across cross-functional teams; strong leadership and interpersonal skills, experience building and fostering effective working relationships

You have strong communication skills, attention to detail and enjoy building processes

You take a data-driven approach to program management; building tools (workflows, custom work intake processes, estimation models), collecting and analyzing data, and driving stakeholder buy-in

You have experience influencing without direct authority at senior levels internal and external to the organisation

Able to travel via train or air, domestically and internationally, up to 15% of the time

Business level English and French proficiency

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.

Benefits and Growth

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, with the 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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