Senior Public Relations Manager (EMEA)

About the role

Datadog is seeking a Senior PR Manager to lead their communications programme across EMEA during a fixed-term maternity cover. This role involves shaping regional communications strategy, building brand reputation, and developing the external profiles of EMEA leaders. The successful candidate will translate company and product insights into compelling stories for local audiences while collaborating with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute Datadog’s EMEA communications strategy, increasing high-quality media visibility and building awareness of Datadog across observability, security and AI
• Lead regional communications for global product launches, company announcements and research, developing relevant local angles and coordinating commentary from EMEA spokespeople
• Build sustained regional awareness through proactive storytelling, timely commentary and thought leadership, while developing trusted relationships with technology, business and national media
• Develop the external profiles of EMEA leaders and experts through distinctive points of view, contributed content, media opportunities and effective spokesperson preparation
• Create communications plans for regional events, market expansion news and business milestones, while coordinating responses to urgent media enquiries and emerging reputational issues with global Communications
• Lead PR agencies across priority markets and partner with regional Marketing, Sales and leadership teams to set priorities, evaluate programme impact and bring EMEA insights into global communications planning
• Measure and communicate programme impact through coverage quality, Tier 1 visibility, message pull-through and other relevant performance indicators

Required skills

• PR
• Corporate communications
• B2B technology
• Enterprise software
• Cybersecurity
• Media relations
• English

Nice to have

• French
• German

About the Company

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.