VP of Engineering

🏢 Summary: Staff AI Productivity Engineer role focused on improving AI-assisted software development through autonomous cloud environments, agent integrations, tooling, and documentation. The position owns the internal AI development experience end-to-end, working across CI/CD, infrastructure, internal systems, and application code. Compensation is $180,000–$400,000 USD plus equity under a remote-first policy. 🗂️ Requirements: Strong software engineering fundamentals, Hands-on experience with AI coding agents, Experience creating agent documentation, custom instructions, or context files, Track record of building developer tools or infrastructure used by engineers, Ability to work across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, internal tooling, and application code 📃 Skills: Backend, Cloud, CI/CD, Infrastructure, Documentation, Claude, Cursor, Copilot, Devin, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, GraphQL, MCP, CircleCI, Slack, Datadog, GitHub 🏢 Description: About Hightouch Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible. Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart. At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses. The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient — and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success. If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you. About the Role We are looking for a Staff AI Productivity Engineer to accelerate how our engineering organization works with AI coding tools. This is a hands-on technical role focused on building infrastructure, tooling, and documentation that makes AI agents dramatically more effective across our codebase. AI tools are evolving rapidly, and we believe the companies that invest in making agents truly productive - not just available - will have a significant advantage. You'll own this problem end-to-end: from setting up cloud development environments where agents can run autonomously, to building MCP integrations that give agents access to our internal systems, to creating the documentation and context that helps agents understand how we build software. You'll have the hands-on acumen to do a lot of the heavy lifting yourself and the leadership skills to drive cross-team efforts to raise the bar everywhere. This role is a companion role to our Developer Productivity role but has a distinct focus: while Dev Productivity owns the build/test/deploy pipeline, you'll own the AI-assisted development experience. An exceptional candidate could wear both hats. Some of the problems we'll be working on include: Own the agentic development environment: Ensure agents can operate in independent cloud-based development environments, execute our full test suites, examine build results visually, etc Build our tooling integrations: Build MCP server integrations that connect our agents to the systems needed to build and debug software, such as CircleCI, Slack, Datadog, Github, etc Documentation and context: Own our repo-wide agents.md file and work with teams to ensure our library of agent guidance and skills is continually pushing the bar. Ensure our conventions and package structures are exposed in ways that agents can effectively use Enablement: Work with our engineers to understand where agents are struggling and address root causes such as better docs, tooling access, etc. Develop tooling for non-engineers to make simple visual updates to our application Serve as a "PM" for internal AI agents: Consistently keep us on the leading edge of AI productivity trends by staying abreast of what is state-of-the-art in industry and driving those improvements across Hightouch We are looking for talented, intellectually curious, and motivated individuals who are interested in tackling the problems above. This is a senior role, but we focus on impact and potential for growth more than years of experience. The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $400,000 USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy. We also offer meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options, and offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window. About You You are an engineer with a passion for solving hard technical problems that generate real value for customers. You're motivated by high ownership and are comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment. Must have Strong software engineering fundamentals—you can dive into complex backend code and understand it quickly Deep hands-on experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Devin, or similar) Experience writing effective agent documentation, custom instructions, or context files that meaningfully improved agent output Track record of building developer tools or infrastructure that other engineers actually use Comfortable working across the stack: you'll touch CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, internal tooling, and application code Nice to have Experience building or contributing to MCP servers or similar agent-tooling integrations Background in developer productivity, platform engineering, or developer experience roles Experience with our stack: TypeScript/JavaScript monorepos, Go, GraphQL You've set up sandboxed or containerized development environments at scale Interview Process Our goal with the interview process is to balance speed with giving both parties opportunities to assess whether there is a strong mutual fit. We will ask you questions, but we want you to ask us questions! Our technical interviews focus on how you design systems because we believe this is the best way for us to see how you work and for you to see how we collaborate. We don't ask you to write code to solve technical brainteasers that don't appear in your day to day job. Apply: Curl jobapi.hightouchdata.com on port 13784 and have followed those instructions before applying. It'll only take a minute! Recruiter Screen [30m]: Introductory call with our recruiting team to get to know each other and see if the role could be a good mutual fit System Design Screen [45m]: Designing a data processing feature end-to-end AI Skills Interview [60m]: We'll dive into how you leverage AI and how you've helped others do the same Hiring Manager Interview [45m]: Chat with hiring manager about past experiences and future operating preferences to assess fit on company values and operating principles System Design Interview [90m]: Work with the interviewer to architect a system at a conceptual level. The problem will be at a pretty high level - and have both product and customer requirements as well as technical E-Verify Statement Hightouch participates in E-Verify. After you join the team, we'll verify your eligibility to work in the U.S. by submitting information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security. This process happens post-hire only — we never use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants. E-Verify Notice E-Verify Notice (Spanish) Right to Work Notice Right to Work Notice (Spanish)

🏢 Summary: Senior Product Designer role focused on building scalable platform experiences for governance, access, teams, identity, and multi-organization workflows. The position partners with product and engineering to translate complex technical problems into high-quality, data-rich UI, prototypes, and cohesive admin experiences. 🗂️ Requirements: 10+ years of digital product design experience, Experience designing data-rich interfaces, Ability to translate complex technical topics into clear UX, Technical fluency to evaluate engineering tradeoffs, Experience with component-based patterns and design systems, Strong written and verbal communication skills 📃 Skills: UX, UI, Prototyping, Figma, Claude, Cursor, AI 🏢 Description: Role Overview We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer with a passion for building platform features that impact UX at a massive scale. As a member of AAA, you’ll work across a breadth of problem spaces on deeply technical topics, such as governance, access, teams, identity, and multi-org UX. You’ll lead design for features that mediate how Datadog’s biggest customers use the platform and manage what their employees can see and do. 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 AAA is a highly technical product environment, where designers strive to understand the technical workflows, constraints and opportunities within this domain. As you develop subject matter expertise, you’ll use your influence as a Senior designer to drive the roadmap and vision. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with your PM and engineering partners to understand customers’ pain points, explore solutions, and build UI that ships. Prototyping in code creates the opportunity to share high-fidelity ideas at early stages, even if the design itself is low-fidelity. Tight feedback loops let your team iterate quickly, building towards an ideal vision for the best possible experience while you ship incremental steps towards that goal. In addition to making the work, you will also share your work with stakeholders at varying levels of seniority, all the way up to executive leadership level. Your crisp context setting and clear description of your solution will help people understand your choices and sell them on your proposal. Your work will up-level the quality bar for what an admin experience can look like. While you’ll leverage Datadog’s design system where it makes sense, you won’t let it prevent broad exploration of different design patterns in the service of finding the optimal solution. As part of a Platform team, you’ll interface with product teams where our features overlap with theirs, ensuring a coherent experience across different contexts that serves both teams’ goals. You’ll stress-test your work against a variety of edge cases, ensuring it holds up in all of the contexts it will live in. Who You Are You have 10+ years of experience in digital product design You have experience designing data-rich interfaces You love the challenge of translating complex technical topics into clear UX You develop fluency in the technical subject matter your product depends on and you can collaborate as a peer with engineering to weigh different solutions and evaluate tradeoffs You have exceptional craft and the drive to elevate the look-and-feel of even workhorse UI You have experience creating component-based design patterns and working with established design systems, though you relish the chance to explore new approaches Your work is informed by a deep understanding of user archetypes and business needs You value data driven decision making but are also confident making a judgment call based on your expertise You have strong written and verbal communication skills that show up in how you share in, Slack messages, meetings docs, presentations, video walkthroughs, and anything else. You're fluent in AI-assisted workflows, using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Figma Make daily for research, analysis, content generation, and rapid prototyping. You’re excited to use these tools to try different approaches to creating design artifacts. A strong eagerness to adopt these approaches counts if you’re newer to them. You are energized by working on multiple projects simultaneously You give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own 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 (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups) Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ Competitive global benefits Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. 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: $162,000 — $202,000 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. 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