Recruiting Coordinator
Datadog is hiring a Recruiting Coordinator in Boston and New York, United States. It pays $49k-$65k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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Manages high-volume interview scheduling, candidate logistics, and ATS data hygiene as an entry-level recruiting coordinator.
Recruiting Coordinators ensure seamless interview experiences at Datadog. This is a hands-on, delivery-first role where you'll actively manage your own scheduling requests while mastering our core tools and building strong recruiter/stakeholder partnerships. You’ll focus on high-volume scheduling and hiring workflows.
This is the foundational individual contributor (IC) role focused on operational execution and scheduling delivery. It serves as the starting point for the people and recruiting career path, emphasizing mastering core tools and navigating the high-volume environment before expanding into broader team-wide initiatives.
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:
- High-volume interview scheduling, within established SLAs.
- Managing interview logistics (remote and onsite), and the candidate and interviewer communication around them.
- Interview day support: rescheduling, logistics, travel, expenses and real-time recovery when something moves.
- Managing job openings and job postings in our ATS, keeping all externally published information accurate and compliant.
- ATS hygiene for your pipeline: stage accuracy, feedback chasing, scorecard completion.
- Scheduling dashboard hygiene, operational excellence dashboard hygiene.
- Offer letters management with high attention to details for regional nuances.
- Team queue coverage: picking work up promptly and escalating blockers early.
- Reporting on your own workload, KPIs and SLAs. You own performance successes and hold yourself accountable to work and improve on gaps as soon as flagged.
- Partnering with recruiters, regional and global recruiting coordinators and stakeholders (people business partners, people coordinators and hiring managers).
- Provide clear guidance and training to stakeholders, delivering prompt and constructive feedback with confidence.
- Future growth goal: supporting onboarding for new team members, delivering training sessions and taking on stretch projects based on bandwidth and contribution.
- Identifies and removes roadblocks with guidance from leaders and tenured peers.
- Embrace a constantly changing environment, navigating uncertainty and pivoting focus to support evolving business needs.
Who You Are:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree
- 2–3 years of admin work experience, or 1-year experience in a Recruiting Coordinator role
- Prioritisation and organisational skills: scheduling, fixing, calendar management, handling urgent requests
- Sense of urgency
- Accuracy and the highest attention to detail in daily tasks
- Tooling fluency (Goodtime and Greenhouse previous knowledge is preferred)
- Clear and concise written communication with candidates, interviewers and stakeholders
- Team spirit: being able to work autonomously but also within a group with a team player attitude
- Reliability
- AI expectations: Appetite and daily use of approved tools to automate routine tasks, focusing on efficiency and consistency in your daily workflow
- "Can-do" attitude: ready to take on any challenge and give each candidate a top-notch experience
- Business acumen: handling confidential and highly sensitive information with discretion and professionalism
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:
- Best-in-breed onboarding
- Generous global benefits
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
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:$49,000—$65,000 USDAbout 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.
How we rate this
Recruiting Coordinator at Datadog rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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