Our Strategic Account Executives target and close new business with Datadogs largest most strategic customers and prospects. In this role youll be focused on uncovering the pain points organizations face as they operate in or migrate to a cloud environment at scale as well as delivering the appropriate Datadog solution.
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 worklife harmony that best fits them.
What Youll Do:
- Prospect into large Fortune 1000 companies while running an efficient sales process
- Maintain build and own specific relationship maps for your territory including existing relationships and aspirational contacts
- Develop a deep comprehension of customers business
- Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI
- Handle existing customer expectations while expanding reach and depth into assigned territory
- Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution
- Have intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation
- Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities
- Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency
Who You Are:
- Someone with 5 years closing experience (mix of field selling within midmarket and enterprise)
- Driven and have met/exceeded direct sales goals of 1M and operated with an average deal size of $100k
- Able to demonstrate methodology to prospect and build pipeline on your own
- Experienced in working for an innovative tech company (SaaS IT infrastructure or similar preferred)
- Experienced in selling into large Fortune 1000 companies with the ability to win new logos
- Able to sit up to 4 hours traveling to and from client sites
- Able to travel via auto train or air up to 70 of the time
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your skills we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- High income earning opportunities based on self performance
- New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development product training and career pathing
- Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for inhouse networking
- An inclusive company culture opportunity to join our Community Guilds
- Generous and competitive medical benefits package
- Retirement savings match
- Pet adoption and insurance program
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Required Experience:
IC