Director – Global Early Careers & Campus Recruiting

The Opportunity

We're experiencing tremendous growth ahead. Early careers hiring represents a good percentage of our overall product and engineering hiring globally. In this role, you will lead a global team hiring interns and new graduates into Datadog. You will act as an advisor and trusted resource to our senior engineering and business leaders, partnering with them and other recruiting leaders to plan and design Datadog’s early careers hiring process for scale. You will lead our worldwide university recruiting efforts with particular emphasis on engineering talent acquisition and building out non-engineering campus programs. You'll develop and execute strategies to attract top-tier early career talent across our global offices, building teams that drive our continued innovation and product growth.

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

• Lead, mentor, coach and scale a high performing global team of managers, leads, recruiters, coordinators, and program managers focused on early careers hiring.
• Design and implement a comprehensive global early careers recruiting strategy focused primarily on engineering talent in North America (Boston, and New York) and EMEA (Paris, Madrid), but also building out a non-technical campus program.
• Scale our early careers global recruiting approach for our Core Engineering, Systems and Reliability Engineering, Security Engineering, and Specialized Technology hiring and build a mature recruiting team that can meet the dynamic demands of our environment.
• Partner with Datadog global engineering and business Leaders, and people Team to execute against key hiring objectives and align headcount growth plans
• Partner with C-suite and senior leaders to design and implement non-technical early career programs
• Define consistent data-driven hiring metrics, productivity lens, and KPIs for early careers hiring
• Execute creative talent sourcing strategies and partner with our employer brand and recruitment marketing team to create campaigns, events, and partnerships for attracting quality diverse talent
• Stay connected to the competitive landscape, including compensation, intern programs, emergent technologies, and employment brand trends
• Design and implement a comprehensive global early careers recruiting strategy focused on engineering talent in North America (Boston, and New York) and EMEA (Paris, Madrid)
• Lead and develop a high-performing team of campus recruiting managers, recruiters, and operations progressions across multiple international regions
• Create scalable processes to identify, assess, and hire exceptional early career talent in competitive markets
• Establish and nurture relationships with target universities and programs globally (with a big emphasis on French universities)
• Manage budgets and allocate resources effectively across global recruiting initiatives

Who You Are:

• 8+ years of experience in leading recruiting teams with at least 5+ years leading campus/university recruiting teams
• Proven track record managing medium to large campus recruiting teams (20+ team members)
• Significant international recruiting experience with demonstrated success hiring in Europe
• Experience working at technology companies with highly competitive hiring bars or in competitive talent markets
• Deep understanding of global engineering talent landscapes and competitor programs
• Strong analytical skills with experience using data to drive recruiting strategy and demonstrate ROI
• Outstanding people management skills with experience managing managers and developing recruiting talent

• Experience scaling campus recruiting programs during periods of rapid company growth
• Knowledge of global immigration processes related to early career hiring
• This role will require international travel (approximately 18-20%) and can be based in Boston, New York, or Paris.
  
  

Benefits and Growth: 

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities 
• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Best in breed onboarding
• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.