Wissal Lahjouji
I build products and platforms that help companies scale.
About me
9+ years in high-growth B2B SaaS, from pre-IPO to the S&P 500,
building enterprise-grade, developer-facing products and platforms
that turn ambiguous problems into customer value and revenue.
- Monetization & Metering Platforms
- Subscriptions & Plan Design
- Developer Platforms & APIs
- AI and LLM Fluency
- Real-Time Data Platforms
- Single-Tenant & Multi-Tenant
- Usage & Revenue Attribution
- Enterprise Spend Management & Controls
- Enterprise Access Controls
- Self-Service Growth
- Cloud Marketplaces & Partner Channels
- Product Analytics & SQL
- P&L Ownership
- Deal Negotiation
- Keynote Production
- 0-to-1
- 1-to-n
Selected work
From ambiguous problems to revenue
On stage
Writing for the stage, too
Four years as speechwriter for the CEO, CTO and CPO. Four live developer keynotes written and directed.
- Developer keynotes4 · 80+ speakers
- Customer keynote segments12+
- All Hands narrative8K+ employees
- Largest-outage commsInternal + customer
Career
Director, Product · Datadog
Revenue Engineering & Monetization; Product Strategy & Operations; de facto Chief of Staff to the CPO. ~90-engineer org, still hands-on.
Senior Product Manager · Datadog
Metrics Monitoring & Monetization. Grew Metrics into the third-largest product; scaled cloud marketplaces.
Product Manager · Datadog
Built the metering and monetization platform ahead of the 2019 IPO; launched self-serve and the marketplace channel.
Product Manager · Blackstone
Infrastructure Operations & Strategy. Tech-stack integrations for multi-billion-dollar acquisitions; DR testing across 200+ apps.
M.S. Human-Computer Interaction · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tracks in data analytics and technical communication.
B.S. Computer Science · Al Akhawayn University
NLP thesis: a D3.js interface for visualizing Arabic parse trees for human annotators.