The posting
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
