The Talent Planning team at Datadog builds programs that help our people grow, develop, and thrive. We’re expanding our workforce planning capabilities to support how we grow and structure our teams. In this role you’ll partner with FP&A, Recruiting, and PBPs to integrate internal mobility, promotion, and attrition insights into headcount planning — helping ensure we align workforce decisions with both business goals and internal talent flows. This is a new role, reporting to the Director of Talent Management.
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:
- Build workforce forecasts by analyzing attrition, mobility, hiring, and promotion trends in collaboration with FP&A and Recruiting
- Partner with PBPs to identify and address headcount gaps, especially in teams with internal growth or development potential
- Integrate internal mobility and promotion data into workforce plans to prioritize building talent from within
- Maintain alignment between planned vs. actual headcount, surfacing risks or mismatches for business leaders
- Collaborate with HRIS and Recruiting Operations to improve position management data and approval workflows in Workday
Work with Talent, Campus, and L&D teams to surface where new or expanded talent programs could close gaps
Partner with Analytics and People Systems to ensure accurate, real-time visibility of filled and open roles across the business
Contribute to the overall maturity of workforce planning at Datadog, driving scalable and strategic practices
Who You Are:
- 8+ years of experience in workforce planning, talent operations, or HR strategy roles
- Strong background working with FP&A or Recruiting teams on headcount and forecasting
- Proficient in building and interpreting models in Google Sheets or Excel; Tableau familiarity a plus
- Deep understanding of position management, ideally in Workday or a comparable HRIS
- Able to connect internal talent insights (mobility, promotion trends) to workforce planning decisions
- Collaborative, structured thinker with a bias for action and strong follow-through
- Skilled at driving clarity in ambiguous or cross-functional environments
- Ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects and influence senior stakeholders.
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:
- Best-in-breed onboarding
- Generous global benefits
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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