Senior Director, Business Recruiting

Datadog is a multinational publicly traded cloud software and security company, with incredible financial results and consistent YoY growth. We are seeking a strong Senior Director of Recruiting to see us through the next stages of growth for the team and region. This role will lead recruiting teams across Japan, Singapore, Australia, and potentially beyond, to drive hiring strategies across all of our business functions. As an action-oriented strategic leader, this role will lead a recruiting team towards hiring growth goals, and will build, scale, and structure process, org design, communication, workflow, and recruiting strategies for future growth. Some key areas of focus will be owning the regional strategy of recruiting, and partnering with senior business leaders on workforce planning, headcount planning, and approaches that prioritizes the success of the region.

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:

Establish and execute strategy to reach company hiring goals

Hire and build high performing teams and develop a team culture of developing and growing ICs and leaders over time

Coach team to create and foster high touch relationships with active and passive candidates, as well as hiring managers

Adapt departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges

Ensure diversity in hiring is a priority

Contribute to and lead team to achieve quarterly goals

Keep a recruiting process fast, efficient, and human at all stages, revising process when needed and adapting to market shifts

Contribute to growing other leaders throughout the organization through coaching, mentoring, and setting the bar for organizational and principled leadership

Facilitate shared accountability with the business and hiring managers working with you as partners

Plan and organize headcount and hiring strategies against seasonality and bandwidth

Use funnel metrics which impact the business to drive actions and change management for the business

Who You Are:

Experienced in recruiting with 15+ years of industry experience, and 10+ years leading recruiting teams

An experienced people manager who has experience in successfully leading managers

Versed in hiring across multiple countries, with deep-rooted expertise in hiring in APAC

Exposed to working with and/or reporting directly to leaders in the U.S., and adept at managing up

Excellent at cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management

Adept at building happy and well performing recruiting teams, able to navigate the journey of building a team parallel with executing a headcount plan

Able to successfully navigate and pivot to changing business needs

Able to use data to identify and drive change

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 & Growth:

Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space

Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility

Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health

Generous global benefits

Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.