Role Overview

Join Datadog as a Senior Customer Data Scientist in New York, New York, and become a key player in powering the world's most innovative companies through advanced experimentation platforms. Datadog, the leading monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, has integrated Eppo to deliver cutting-edge observability, security, feature flagging, and experimentation in one unified solution. Our tools empower developers, data teams, and business users to ship faster, learn continuously, and deliver reliable digital experiences.

As part of the Eppo Solutions team within Datadog, you'll work directly with customers like Coinbase, Perplexity, and DraftKings to implement trustworthy, high-velocity experiments. From simple A/B tests to sophisticated methods like holdouts, bandits, and synthetic controls, you'll guide customers through design, interpretation, and operational best practices. This hybrid role in New York offers the perfect blend of office collaboration and work-life harmony, positioning you at the forefront of causal inference and product development tooling.

Datadog's rapid growth means your expertise will directly influence customer success and our platform's evolution. If you have 4+ years in data science with deep statistics knowledge, this is your opportunity to shape how leading enterprises run experiments at scale.

Key Responsibilities at Datadog

• Pre-sales technical partnership: Serve as the analytical expert for customers evaluating Datadog's experimentation capabilities, demonstrating ROI through real-world scenarios.
• Proof of concept leadership: Help configure metrics, validate data pipelines, and design statistically sound experiments that prove value quickly.
• Best practices education: Teach experiment design, metric definition, and interpretation across product A/B tests, marketing lifecycle experiments, pricing strategies, and AI/ML initiatives.
• Post-sales enablement: Deliver training ensuring customers adopt strong analytical habits, maximizing Eppo and Datadog platform utilization.
• Product influence: Collaborate with Product and Engineering to channel customer feedback into roadmap priorities.
• Sales acceleration: Partner with leadership to identify opportunities, address objections, and cultivate champions within customer organizations.
• Thought leadership: Create internal documentation, playbooks, and presentations that elevate company-wide experimentation standards.
• Customer success optimization: Analyze experiment results to drive business outcomes like improved win rates and revenue growth.
• Advanced methodology implementation: Deploy cutting-edge techniques including multi-armed bandits, synthetic controls, and geolift tests.

Qualifications & Requirements

To succeed as a Senior Customer Data Scientist at Datadog, you need:

• 4+ years professional data science experience with expertise in statistics, causal inference, and experimental design.
• Proven A/B testing track record across multiple companies/products, including advanced methods like holdouts, bandits, and synthetic controls.
• SQL fluency and hands-on experience with data engineering to troubleshoot customer data warehouses and pipelines.
• Customer-facing excellence: Ability to explain complex analytics simply, handle objections, and build trust with diverse audiences.
• Teaching passion: Enjoy simplifying concepts and elevating others' analytical capabilities.
• Impact motivation: Driven by real business results in customer success, sales win rates, and revenue growth.

Preferred: Enterprise solutions/pre-sales experience, familiarity with dbt/Airflow, B2B SaaS exposure, and demonstrated thought leadership in experimentation.

Salary & Benefits

Datadog offers competitive compensation for Senior Customer Data Scientists in New York, including base salary, significant equity, and performance bonuses. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

• Competitive equity packages with meaningful ownership
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for families
• Generous commuter benefits and transportation reimbursements
• Fitness and wellness reimbursements (gym memberships, classes)
• Professional development stipend for conferences, courses, certifications
• Unlimited PTO with flexible hybrid work model
• 401(k) matching and retirement planning
• Parental leave and family support programs
• Company-sponsored learning and growth opportunities

Why Join Datadog?

Datadog isn't just a monitoring platform—it's the unified solution for cloud observability, security, and experimentation. By joining our New York team, you'll:

• Work with innovative customers driving industry change
• Shape the future of experimentation platforms at enterprise scale
• Thrive in a collaborative, growth-oriented hybrid culture
• Directly impact customer success and company revenue
• Access cutting-edge tools and methodologies in causal inference
• Build expertise across Datadog's full observability and security stack

Our office culture fosters relationships, collaboration, and creativity while supporting work-life harmony through flexible hybrid arrangements.

How to Apply

Ready to accelerate experimentation at Datadog? Apply now for the Senior Customer Data Scientist position in New York. Submit your resume highlighting A/B testing experience, SQL expertise, and customer-facing successes. We value diverse backgrounds and understand not everyone meets every qualification day one—bring your passion for data-driven impact!

Join thousands of Datadogs building the future of cloud monitoring, security, and experimentation. Apply today and help innovative companies like Coinbase and DraftKings achieve breakthrough business outcomes.