Program Manager - Community Content and Events (EMEA)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 28, 2026. Datadog scores B on the Alion truth index.
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 EMEAregion.
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.
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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