Team Lead, Tech Recruiting - Product Design & Communities

The Technical Recruiting team at Datadog is responsible for scaling our Product and Engineering departments. Our recruiters are strategic business partners, matchmakers, sellers and marketeers, all wrapped into one. We contribute to the bottom line and have high visibility to leadership. We partner with our hiring managers to grow their teams with great people in multiple technical and business areas. 

As a Technical Recruiting Team Lead, you will hire, train, lead, develop, and inspire a team of technical recruiters to unlock their potential and deliver bar-raising results. In this role, you will partner closely with your peer recruiting leaders, sourcers and program managers to build best in class hiring practices and strategy.
You will lead a team of Technical Recruiters to achieve aggressive software engineering hiring goals across EMEA.This role is highly impactful – you will work closely with business leaders and engineering teams to hire the best talent.
This leader must be self-driven, who can develop strong relationships, communicate clearly with data, prioritize effectively, and have a consistent track record of delivery.A successful candidate will be creative, resourceful, data-driven and will have the ability to work autonomously. The candidate will have a proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
The right candidate must be able to effectively provide thought leadership, set benchmarks, analyze data/metrics, and understand how to build a high performing team.

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:

• Collaborate with the sourcing team to proactively build a diverse candidate pool and address top business priorities.
• Work closely with Engineering and Product leaders to influence and deliver a quality assessment and candidate experience through all aspects of the recruitment funnel.
• Build, engage, manage and develop a team of high-performing technical recruiters in an extremely fast-paced and ambiguous environment
• Be responsible for leading your team to achieve projected team recruiting goals annually
• Staff team appropriately to ensure hiring success
• Coach team to create and foster high touch relationships with active and passive candidates, as well as team members
• Set team performance goals and metrics, timelines and a formal tracking process to measure and manage progress
• Contribute to and lead team to achieve OKR’s quarterly
• Forecast strategy for achieving hiring goals
• Facilitate training sessions with teams when needed
• Adapt and revise process when needed
• Develop ideas to pivot messaging, job descriptions, or any external facing content/events to help impact our ability to attract talent
• Stay on top of the latest recruiting strategies, market movements, and company changes
• Use funnel metrics which impact the business to drive actions and change management for the business
• Lead and/or participate in cross-business/cross-company special projects and initiatives related to talent acquisition.

Who You Are:

• 8+ years of Recruiting and/or HR experience
• 4+ years or people management or mentorship experience
• Experience leading technical teams of 5+ direct reports
• Experience recruiting for technical/Software Development Engineering talent
• Organized and pragmatic; thrives in a results-oriented environment
• Skilled at partnering with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches.
• Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow between Candidates, Hiring Managers and the Recruiting team
• A proven track record of influencing senior leaders on recruiting strategies
• Project/Program Management Experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience utilizing data and analytical skills to create, measure, and scale workflows to achieve accelerated hiring goals
  
  
  

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:

• Generous and competitive global and US benefits
• 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.