Enablement Designer, Recruiting – 12-Month Engagement (NYC)
New York · USD 131,000-164,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 30, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- New York
- Salary
- USD 131,000-164,000 / year · OTE
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.
About the role
- Datadog is seeking a contract Enablement Designer for a 12-month engagement to build and deliver training content for a global recruiting and people team.
- This hands-on role involves designing curriculum, producing training materials, and facilitating live sessions for recruiters, sourcers, and people leaders.
- The designer will establish a maintainable content system and partner closely with Recruiting Operations leadership.
Responsibilities
- Design and build modular enablement content across the recruiting lifecycle including intake, sourcing, assessment, closing, and candidate experience.
- Produce facilitator guides, participant materials, job aids, and async modules.
- Manage LMS and SCORM packaging for training content.
- Facilitate core curriculum sessions, including regional delivery.
- Build a measurement layer to track completion, confidence, and manager-reported readiness.
- Contribute an AI layer into existing manager development programs.
- Develop a maintainable content model including source files, ownership, and update triggers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition, Enablement, Learning & Development, or instructional design.
- Meaningful experience inside or directly supporting a recruiting function.
- Proven track record as a prolific content builder with a portfolio of curricula, playbooks, and training materials.
- Experience as a confident facilitator for both in-person and virtual sessions.
- Ability to operate with limited hand-holding and diagnose organizational gaps.
- Experience working as a contractor or consultant with a track record of scoped delivery against a timeline.
- Skilled at building credibility quickly with stakeholders.
- Experience designing for a global audience across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience developing or coaching people leaders.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs)
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous career development opportunities
- Product training
- Onboarding program
- Internal mentor and buddy program
- Healthcare, dental, and mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Fitness reimbursements
Workplace
- Operates as a hybrid workplace.
- Values office culture for collaboration and creativity.
Skills
- LMS
- SCORM
- Instructional Design
- AI
