Jennifer Tejada
Analyst · RBC Capital Markets
Thank you, Stacey, and thank you, everyone, for joining us this afternoon for our second quarter earnings call. I'm pleased to welcome Stacey Finerman, our new VP of Investor Relations, to the PagerDuty team. Great to have you here, Stacey. Q2 was another strong quarter, demonstrating our leadership in a rapidly growing category we pioneered: digital operations management. It was our first $40 million revenue quarter driven by our multiple engines for growth: new customers, new users, new product adoption and international expansion. Revenue grew 45% year-over-year with continued broad demand across industries, verticals and geographies. We closed the quarter with 12,045 total customers, adding 365 net new customers. Q2 is also a record quarter for expansion of customers spending over $100,000, increasing by 32, totaling 274. This represents an increase of 51% year-over-year, further validating our success in enterprise and in market segments. We grew efficiently, sustaining best-in-class non-GAAP gross margins of 86%. Our success is tied directly to the success of our users and our customers, and we appreciate and respect the trust they place in our team and in PagerDuty. During the quarter, we saw robust demand for our platform as well as strong adoption of our new products, Event Intelligence, Modern Incident Response, Visibility and Analytics. Demand is driven by a number of macro trends, three of which I will focus on today. First, the amount of time the consumer will wait when a brand experience is not perfect is shrinking to less than 3 seconds. Second, digital transformation comes with the challenges of proliferation in technology, apps and signals stemming from cloud computing, distributed architectures and IT modernization. This creates hugely complex technology ecosystems that need to be managed to deliver on customers' expectations. And third, the developer-influenced modern workforce requires intuitive apps that work together seamlessly, scalably and securely and support employees' needs in today's dynamic real-time environment. Traditional incident management solutions don't address the challenges that come with these trends. Many were designed prior to cloud computing in a time of sequential command-and-control workloads. They often require manual integration, heavy investments to deploy and can't support today's agile work environment. PagerDuty is different. Our platform is designed for additional disruptors as well as the world's largest enterprises. It was architected for real-time, cross-functional work and delivers proven resiliency at scale. 10 years ago, we made a big bet that DevOps methodology would become mainstream and created a cloud native On-Call Management solution for DevOps teams. Our bet paid off as software engineers voted with their credit cards. Today, our on-call solution is the entry point for our platform, which is now enhanced with automation, machine learning and intelligence substantially separating it from other solutions. When customers add enhanced products on top of the PagerDuty platform, they gain significant value by shifting from basic coordination of on-call rotation to proactive and automated orchestration, incident management and real-time operations management. Automation is a key focus area in our new products. A public mobile payments company with a point-of-sale solutions used by millions of businesses uses PagerDuty platform across all of its engineering teams. This quarter, the company added Event Intelligence, which combines machine and human response data using machine learning to intelligently group cohorts and automatically route them to the right teams. As a result, the customer has reduced incidents by 42%, saving hours of unplanned work, improving customer experience, protecting revenue and reducing operation costs. IG Group, a global fintech leader in derivative, also adapted Event Intelligence this quarter, reducing their work by 58% and thereby reducing the number of the services employed. We estimate their projected annual savings to be over $500,000. We recently commissioned our first real-time work study, which revealed that 51% of executives and employees find out about incidents from customers themselves when they complain or tweet about a bad experience. This causes hours of unplanned stressful work as multiple teams scramble in silos to address each incident. Our Modern Incident Response solution addresses these problems by automatically detecting issues and intelligently orchestrating cross-functional team response, helping teams to ensure a better customer experience. IHS Markit is a $26 billion public, global information company providing data, insight and software principally across three major industries: energy and natural resources, financial services and transportation. This quarter, IHS Markit replaced a point solution that did not scale effectively with PagerDuty platform. The company is deploying our platform and Modern Incident Response across nearly 1,000 users. It's also important that companies can determine the business impact of unplanned work and customer-impacting incidents on their bottom line. According to our survey, the cost of unplanned work is increasing, and 86% states that this results in less time to innovate. Team states burnout, lost productivity and less development time which, in turn, impact competitiveness and creates brand risk. Other companies cannot understand the real-time business impact of incidents. Our Visibility product translates the immediate impact of incidents like outages and disruptions into business outcomes. No other product in the market consolidates a real-time holistic view of operation and correlates people, technology, services and business impact in the moments that matter. PagerDuty analytics provides operational scorecards and customizable dashboards so companies can apply a proactive approach to managing digital operations based on how teams have historically responded to major issues. The scorecards provide a curated approach to improve team health, technology service health and business outcomes like total cost of incidents, response cost to the business and predictive people metrics to detect response of the team. This is an industry-first and a significant differentiator for PagerDuty. We are excited by the broad visibility of PagerDuty's platform. This quarter, we discovered a number of new use cases where our customers have applied our platform. A late-stage, hydro fintech company that facilitates digital payments for millions of businesses worldwide uses PagerDuty across many of its teams. Having started with developers, they then expanded their users to legal, security and payment operations teams. The payment operations team use PagerDuty to coordinate with global banking partners in real time, ensuring successful transaction. Physical security teams are on PagerDuty for real-time response to physical security issues. The legal teams manage time-sensitive requests from law enforcement, and SecOps teams are on PagerDuty to monitor security risk and ensure compliance. A global recognized leader in GPS navigation and wireless devices uses PagerDuty to monitor its emergency communication devices where complete reliability is a life or death matter. The company previously used a basic monitoring service and switched to PagerDuty due to reliability concerns. After recognizing improved reliability, scale and value PagerDuty provides, the company has now expanded its use of PagerDuty to its digital transformation initiatives. Another notable new use case led by our PagerDuty.org initiative was Code for America, a nonprofit that focuses on reforming government services to make them simple, easy to use and accessible to all Americans. They are currently using PagerDuty to support their GetCalFresh program, which improves access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, more commonly known as food stamps. GetCalFresh has digitized and streamlined the process for applying for SNAP, reducing the application time from 82% from 45 minutes to 8 minutes and has helped over 1 million Californians gain access to food stamps. From a product perspective, this quarter, we launched a number of new capabilities that help our customers more quickly and accurately respond to issues and opportunities that impact revenue brands and customer experience. In July, we launched Business Response, which advances traditional status page capabilities so responders can seamlessly update business stakeholders on business service impacts and real-time recovery progress in an intuitive, fully automated way. This allows responders to drive faster evolution and enable stakeholders to proactively manage customers' needs. Similarly, in Q2, we enhanced our search capability to provide improved contacts for IT and DevOps team so they can more easily navigate large organizations to find the right subject matter experts team and escalation policies during incidents and respond faster in the moments that matter. To further build on our market leadership, we continue to deepen our leadership bench. During the quarter, we appointed a new CMO, Julie Herendeen. Julie comes to PagerDuty having led large marketing teams at companies, including Uber, Dropbox, Yahoo! and Lookout, and now leads our efforts to scale our brands and continue to build our demand generation and growth markets. As we expand our business, we will continue to invest proactively in leadership to support our growth. In the coming quarters, we anticipate adding a Chief People Officer and a Chief Revenue Officer. Overall, we had another strong quarter, and I'm proud of what our team has accomplished to benefit our users, customers and partners. We are encouraged by our continued strength in enterprise and rapid adoption of add-on products. We continue to see growth in expansion, geographies, new use cases and new products aided by our self-serve and high-velocity sales motion. Finally, I'd like to highlight our fourth annual user conference summit, which takes place on September 23 through the 25th where we will be hosting over 1,000 developers and technology executives. We are excited to host industry leaders, including Jeff Lawson from Twilio, Eric Yuan of Zoom, Cynthia Stoddard of Adobe and investor Andre Iguodala as well as breakout sessions led by leaders and practitioners innovating with the PagerDuty platform. We look forward to an action-packed week with our community, including new product innovation and best practices we can all learn from. With that, I'd now like to turn the call over to our CFO, Howard, who'll walk through the financial results. Howard?