Vice President, People Business Partner

The role

You will lead a global team of People Business Partners to support the Engineering organization. You will partner with the CTO and Engineering leadership to manage organizational design, talent needs, and workforce planning.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a global team of People Business Partners
• Serve as a partner to the CTO and Engineering leadership team
• Help leaders design scalable organizations with clear structures and roles
• Partner with Engineering leadership on AI transformation and workforce needs
• Lead workforce and headcount planning across Engineering
• Advise leaders on succession planning, performance, compensation, and retention
• Use people and business data to identify trends and influence decisions
• Coach senior Engineering leaders through change and team performance
• Oversee complex and sensitive employee relations matters
• Ensure core People processes are executed effectively across Engineering

Required qualifications

• At least 15 years of progressive HR or People Business Partner experience
• Significant experience leading teams
• Experience managing people managers
• Experience building layered People Business Partner teams
• Experience as a partner to C-level executives
• Experience supporting a complex, global organization through growth and change
• Experience working with a large-scale Engineering organization
• Deep experience in organizational design, workforce planning, executive succession, talent management, performance management, compensation, change management, and employee relations

Nice to have

• Experience supporting a global Engineering population of several thousand employees

Benefits

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs)
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Product training
• Best in breed onboarding
• Internal mentor and buddy program
• Healthcare
• Dental
• Parental planning
• Mental health benefits
• 401(k) plan and match

About the company

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack. It is trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders.