About this role
Datadog’s Recruiting Operations team is on a mission to scale and optimize the Recruiting organization through operational efficiency, best-in-class tooling, analytics, and programs. We are looking for a Program Manager to own our sourcing tools and workflows and to build the capability that lets our sourcers find and engage the people who will build the next decade of Datadog.
In this role, you will own our sourcing tech stack end to end. Today that means Gem as our candidate relationship management system and LinkedIn Recruiter as our primary sourcing channel, but you will own the question of what the stack should be: which tools we invest in, which we retire, how they fit together, and how they connect into Greenhouse. You will set the roadmap, hold the vendor relationships and renewals, define how sourcing performance is measured, and partner with sourcing leadership to turn a collection of tools into a genuine competitive advantage in how Datadog finds talent.
AI is changing sourcing faster than any technology shift in the last decade, and we want someone who is excited to be at the front of it. Our platforms are shipping AI capability continuously — assisted search, drafted outreach, agentic workflows — and much of it is genuinely useful while some of it is not. You will be the person who tells the difference, decides what Datadog adopts, designs the workflows that put it to work, and makes sure we use it in a way that is fair to candidates and defensible to regulators. Datadog builds for the AI era; we want our recruiting function to operate like it.
through them, drive real adoption of the CRM across the team, and tell us honestly where we are leaving capability on the table. You will also work with the owner of our ATS to make sure data flows cleanly from sourcing into the hiring pipeline.
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:
• Own the sourcing tech stack end to end — configuration, administration, integrations, user and license management, and the multi-year roadmap for how it evolves
• Own Datadog’s AI sourcing strategy: identify where AI can meaningfully change how our sourcers work, build the roadmap for adopting it, and lead the implementations that follow
• Evaluate emerging AI sourcing capability with a critical eye — run structured pilots, separate real capability from vendor marketing, and make clear recommendations
• Design AI-assisted and agentic sourcing workflows alongside sourcers and iterate them based on what the data says is working
• Define how we measure AI efficacy in sourcing, establishing human baselines and holding AI-assisted workflows to them
• Own responsible AI use in sourcing: human-in-the-loop standards, partnering with Legal and Privacy on evolving requirements including