Manager, Recruiting for Recruiting

Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS product is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stack, allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally. Given the resilience of cloud technologies and importance placed today in digital operations and agility, Datadog continues to innovate and is well positioned for the long term.

The Team:

The Recruiting team at Datadog is responsible for scaling the growth of our company size. Our recruiters are strategic business partners, matchmakers, sellers and marketeers, all wrapped into one. We contribute to the bottom line and have high visibility to leadership teams as we partner with our business leaders on building their teams with top talent within multiple business areas. You will have the opportunity to shape, mold, and impact how fast we grow, the way we’re viewed, and the candidate experience.

The Opportunity:

We're experiencing tremendous growth and are growing our recruiting team to support our business across. The Recruiting Manager position is a brand new global leadership role, driving recruiting for the critical roles in our business and tech recruiting teams across the globe. This is a build role, as it will hire, ramp and build our recruiting for recruiting process, structure, and team from scratch, and will drive results and productivity, enabling our recruiting teams to find and access the best recruiting talent on the market.

You Will:

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  Lead your team to achieve projected team recruiting goals annually
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  Staff team appropriately to ensure hiring success
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  Plan and establish goals and objectives for the team
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  Coach team to create and foster high touch relationships with active and passive candidates, as well as hiring managers
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  Ensure diversity in hiring is a priority
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  Contribute to and lead team to achieve OKR’s quarterly
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  Forecast strategy for achieving hiring goals
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  Work across strategic or leadership level roles when needed
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  Adapt departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenge

• Facilitate training sessions with recruiters and leaders as it pertains to sourcing, interviewing, profile identification, process workflow, etc.
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  Keep a recruiting process fast, efficient, and human at all stages, revising process when needed
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  Develop ideas to pivot messaging, job descriptions, or any external facing content/events to help impact our ability to acquire talent
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  Stay on top of the latest recruiting strategies, market movements, and company changes
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  Facilitate shared accountability with the business and hiring managers working with you as partners
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  Use funnel metrics which impact the business to drive actions and change management for the business

You Are:

• Passionate about coaching others, with 2 years of people leadership experience
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  Experienced in full-lifecycle recruiting both domestically and internationally
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  A master in the following functions:
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    Recruiting workflow
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    Hiring manager relationship development
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    Interview process revision or build-out
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    Debrief and feedback flow from interview teams
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    Training for new managers
  
  
• Superior at selling value proposition, negotiating and closing great candidates
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  Experienced in recruiting for recurring positions, building deep pipelines of candidates and organizing cross-pollinating recruiting pipelines
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  Skilled at operating with a sense of urgency in all stages of the recruiting cycle
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  Able to successfully navigate an ever-changing process