Director, Recruiting Operations

<p>The Director of Recruiting Operations and Systems will lead the strategy, evolution, and execution of the technology, systems, and operating model that powers hiring across Datadog. This leader will oversee Recruiting Operations, Recruiting Technology, and AI Enablement for the recruiting team. You will be a key player leading a team that supports a recruiting function of approximately 200 recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators. We are undergoing an exciting transformation across our People and Recruiting teams, and we need a leader who can bring expertise in recruiting, systems, and data, along with a product management mindset, to help build the best experience for our candidates, recruiting teams, and interviewers. 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 the work-life harmony that best fits them.</p> <p><em>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.</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define and execute the long-term goals and roadmap for how our recruiting tech stack can best support and drive efficiency, including recruiting systems, integrations, AI capabilities, automation, and operational workflows.</li> <li>Lead multidisciplinary teams to move us from a traditional recruiting operations approach to a more progressive, AI-native approach.&nbsp;</li> <li>Apply product management principles to continually gather user feedback and use it to drive experimentation, new tool investments, and workflow improvements.</li> <li>Establish responsible AI governance while driving automation initiatives that improve recruiter productivity, hiring quality, and operational efficiency.</li> <li>Partner with our People Analytics teams to ensure that the workflows in our recruiting systems provide the data needed to drive critical business decisions and train recruiting teams on how to use these tools for better hiring partnerships.</li> <li>Partner with Recruiting, Engineering, IT, Security, Finance, People Technology, and executive stakeholders to drive platform adoption, continuous improvement, and organizational change, while ensuring that we continually comply with applicable laws and regulations governing the use of AI in hiring decisions globally.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Significant leadership experience driving enterprise-scale recruiting operations, people technology, product manageme