DataDome Joins the Ranks of Great Places to Work 2024!
DataDome's Sr. Communications Manager Maureen Shaw was featured in a Built In NYC article in honor of Women's Equality Day. Check out her Q&A.
DataDome's Sr. Communications Manager Maureen Shaw was one of 13 leaders featured in a Built In NYC article in honor of Women's Equality Day: How Do You Ensure Women Thrive In Your Workplace? These 13 NYC Leaders Have Some Advice, by Olivia Arnold. The article focuses on workplace support systems and opportunities for female leadership. The content below is a direct excerpt from the Built In NYC article.
Too often in corporate culture, mothers can feel torn between work and their children. At DataDome, I luckily do not have that problem.
Maureeen Shaw, Senior Communications Manager at DataDome
Aiming to achieve gender parity in its employment, cybersecurity company DataDome recently joined 50inTech, a movement that encourages hiring, promoting and retaining women in technology companies. DataDome, a provider of SaaS solutions to protect customers’ websites, also hosts DEI pods, during which employees discuss and craft company policies related to women’s empowerment, LGBTQIA+ rights, parenting and more.
Senior Communications Manager Maureen Shaw says that her work experience is a testament to DataDome’s inclusive culture. As a single mother, Shaw sometimes needs to adjust meeting times or deadlines when last-minute schedule changes arise, and she says her manager and team have always supported her in doing so.
My career path has not been linear. Since I entered the workforce nearly 20 years ago, I’ve had a rather eclectic resumé, ranging from public relations, to journalism, to nonprofit advocacy work, with gaps in between to raise my children.
Similarly, my overall career goals don’t follow a prescriptive trajectory. Rather than setting financial or promotion goals and timelines, I take a more holistic approach. I want to leverage my skill set in communications in a positive work environment that both challenges me and leaves me with a sense of satisfaction at the end of each day.
When I began at DataDome 14 months ago, my goal was to build a successful, sustainable and scalable communications program from scratch with autonomy. This was a challenging undertaking, but extremely rewarding. Since day one, I have been given the support—both in terms of resources and encouragement—that I need to do my job. Not once have I encountered any red tape, hesitation or dissuasion when presenting new ideas.
Because of this, I have succeeded in building and expanding brand awareness for DataDome in a tough market, and my successes aren’t mine alone; they belong to all of my colleagues.
DataDome makes every effort to invest in a gender-diverse team, with the ultimate goal of achieving gender parity, which is something that is generally lacking in the technology industry. To this end, women represent nearly 28 percent of DataDome’s total employee base (higher than the industry average), including many roles in engineering, management and leadership. Recently, DataDome joined the 50inTech movement, which encourages the hiring, promotion and retention of women in technology companies.
Additionally, DataDome proactively invests in its employees’ professional development and supports structured career paths, both monetarily and from a work-life balance perspective. With a new training plan in place, employees can access relevant training courses at no cost to them, as well as participate in industry conferences.
Anecdotally, I can attest to DataDome’s inclusive, equitable culture. Case in point: I’m a single mother, which sometimes requires last-minute changes in my workday schedule. This can mean moving meetings or pushing back deadlines, and I have always had my manager’s support. I’ve never been made to feel like my job or value within the company might suffer because I have to press “pause” on work to parent when the need arises. This is a wonderful thing. Too often in corporate culture, mothers can feel torn between work and their children. At DataDome, I luckily do not have that problem.
Our HR department also recently kicked off DEI pods, focused on topics such as LGBTQIA+ rights, women’s empowerment, parenting, accessibility and culture and ethnicities. Each of the five pods are led by an employee, four of whom are women, with the goal of fostering a sense of shared community and making an impact internally, whether in the form of policies, education or awareness. At DataDome, women are celebrated and treated with respect.
The interview above is an excerpt from How Do You Ensure Women Thrive In Your Workplace? These 13 NYC Leaders Have Some Advice, by Olivia Arnold at Built In NYC.
