Director of Staff

Datadog continues to grow at a very rapid clip in all dimensions (customers, staff, and revenue). We are looking for a Director of Staff to the VP of Business Recruiting to ensure our ambitious recruiting team roadmap moves forward swiftly to meet the needs of our hyper growth as we scale.

As a staff leader to the VP Business Recruiting, you’ll be focused on identifying and leading key topics, making the organization more efficient, and enhancing project delivery. Your role will be to ensure that information, decisions, and processes are enhanced and more effective as we scale.

You Will:

• Be a sounding board to the VP and Recruiting leaders on new ideas, roadmaps, and org structure
• Make prioritization and decision-making more efficient and well-understood
• Sub in for any interim gaps in leadership to carry hiring forward
• Drive quarterly goal planning (OKR) alignment and execution in collaboration with the recruiting leaders

• Develop project management and regular best practices across the leadership team
• Monitor progress, follow through on action items, help pick owners and provide project management for the execution of plans
• Guarantee that internal meetings are well-run
• Deal with complex issues and ambiguous situations; reduce them to their simplest expression and drive for clear outcomes
• Ensure solid recruiting budget management (headcount as well as spending)
• Ensure flawless communication strategy and engagement on all priorities
• Amplify the VP’s communication internally and raise topics to her
• Build strong performance management culture, KPI planning and global success metrics across recruiting organization
• Support the development and implementation of our recruiting roadmap
• Coach and guide recruiting leadership

You Are:

• A recruiting professional with 15+ years of successful recruiting experience in-house and experience leading leaders
• Excellent at project management, driving projects to completion
• Experienced in operationalizing process improvements
• Great at leading and implementing change by understanding how organizations work and getting things over the finish line
• Highly organized, proactive, and efficient
• A critical thinker with demonstrated ability to find and weave data into the decision-making process, in order to simplify problems
• Someone with great interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with the leadership team and across the company
• Strong analytically in Excel and data analysis