Job Abstract

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 Strategy and Operations Senior Associate will join a unique strategy and operations team driving Datadog’s next phase of growth. We’re interdisciplinary thinkers leveraging diverse business backgrounds in management consulting, business development, law, investment management, investment banking and tech to accelerate Datadog’s global growth. We work directly with Datadog’s most senior leaders to set corporate strategy, improve efficiency across the business, support data-driven decision-making, own complex operations and more.

In this role, you will answer key questions about business trade-offs and identify areas for future growth. The ideal candidate is an analytical problem solver who enjoys diving into data, gets excited about answering challenging questions, and can influence business stakeholders to take action based on their recommendations.

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:

• Use advanced analytics to help refine our understanding of our business and users. Become the expert on our customer base.
• Improve our revenue growth forecasting across sales channels and customer cohorts, translating forecasting requirements into specific analytical questions.
• Deliver actionable analyses and insights on areas for change or increased investment to relevant stakeholders (including senior executives).
• Create data aggregations that can be leveraged by others.
• Build visualizations to expose key business metrics and KPIs.
• Work on special projects for the c-suite.
  

Who You Are:

• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or another quantitative field.
• At least 1-3 years of professional experience, likely as a business analyst, data analyst, or in a quantitative finance or consulting role.
• Proven ability to develop actionable recommendations from qualitative and quantitative data.
• Strong quantitative modeling abilities: can model any operational question.
• Experience manipulating and analyzing complex datasets using SQL, Python and/or R.
• Used to communicating data heavy insights to technical and non-technical audiences.

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.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in Tableau, Looker or similar data visualization tools
• Experience building forecasts and/or predictive models
• Excited to work with customer success, sales, finance, engineering and other functions

Benefits and Growth:

• Continuous training and career growth
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Generous and competitive US benefits
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

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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