Job description

Datadog is the essential monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. We bring together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable. These capabilities help businesses secure their systems, avoid downtime, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience. Datadog's Finance team collaborates with teams across the organization, providing commercial, operational and analytical support to ensure that Datadog's business continues to scale rapidly and efficiently. This is an opportunity to help support our go-to-market (GTM) departments, including customer success and Sales as a part of our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. Supporting a Manager of GTM FP&A, you would be responsible for the budgeting and forecasting for some or all of these departments. You will partner closely with our strategy team to understand past customer and sales performance, and influence the company’s go-forward strategy. You will help connect the business, strategy, and finance cohesively together. At Datadog, we place value on 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: Be the Finance support to go-to-market (GTM) teams which could include Customer Success (CS) and Sales Support annual planning for headcount, T&E, and discretionary spending for GTM Meet regularly with the departments to understand budget vs. actual tracking and calibration Build and maintain bookings forecasts and pipeline analyses for renewals and expansion, and flag risks and upside to leadership Analyze CS performance, including ARR, net and gross revenue retention, churn, expansion attainment, CSM productivity, and book-of-business coverage Partner with the Strategy team to ensure alignment of metrics and reporting Be a strategic contributor (in partnership with Strategy) on decisions around CS account coverage models, account segmentation, compensation planning (and resulting expenses), and other strategic decisions Work as a part of the broader FP&A team to understand the company’s financials, analytics, and help the organization scale thoughtfully Who You Are: 2+ years of professional experience in FP&A / Strategic Finance, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, and/or other related field Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or economics Mastery of Excel and PowerPoint with proven experience in building financial models and managing complex data You are a clear, concise communicator and team player with a humble mindset and ‘can-do’ attitude Bonus Points: Solid understanding of Pigment is a plus, but not required Experience in or understanding of a consumption-based software business model Proficiency in use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude) 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 and Growth: New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds Generous and competitive benefits package Continuous career development and pathing opportunities Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. #LI-Hybrid Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $99,000 — $132,000 USD About Datadog: Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center. Equal Opportunity at Datadog: Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference. Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form . This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications. Privacy and AI Guidelines: Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice . For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines .

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Datadog's Finance team collaborates with teams across the organization, providing commercial, operational and analytical support to ensure that Datadog's business continues to scale rapidly and efficiently.
Be the Finance support to go-to-market (GTM) teams which could include Customer Success (CS) and Sales
Support annual planning for headcount, T&E, and discretionary spending for GTM
Meet regularly with the departments to understand budget vs. actual tracking and calibration
Build and maintain bookings forecasts and pipeline analyses for renewals and expansion, and flag risks and upside to leadership
Analyze CS performance, including ARR, net and gross revenue retention, churn, expansion attainment, CSM productivity, and book-of-business coverage
Partner with the Strategy team to ensure alignment of metrics and reporting
Be a strategic contributor (in partnership with Strategy) on decisions around CS account coverage models, account segmentation, compensation planning (and resulting expenses), and other strategic decisions
Work as a part of the broader FP&A team to understand the company’s financials, analytics, and help the organization scale thoughtfully
2+ years of professional experience in FP&A / Strategic Finance, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, and/or other related field
Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or economics
Mastery of Excel and PowerPoint with proven experience in building financial models and managing complex data
You are a clear, concise communicator and team player with a humble mindset and ‘can-do’ attitude
New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
Generous and competitive benefits package
Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Nice-to-haves

Solid understanding of Pigment is a plus, but not required
Experience in or understanding of a consumption-based software business model
Proficiency in use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude)

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