Field CISO - San Francisco

We are Datadogs inhouse product experts. The Technical Solutions (TS) team enables Datadogs worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. The Field CISOs are part of the larger Product Solutions Architecture (PSAs) organization and act as technical multipliers who build lasting trusted relationships bridging the gap between customer aspirations and our technology roadmap enabling digital transformation and ensuring sustained growth for both our customers and our organization. Datadog is growing the Technical Solutions (TS) organization by seeking a customerfocused industry specialized and resultsoriented Field CISO to join our highgrowth organization and oversee our GTM technical strategy for the North America region with primary focus on Information Security.

Reports to the Head of Product Solutions Architecture. Partners closely with all Technical Solutions teams (Product Solutions Architecture Sales Engineering Technical Post Sales Support Engineering) and other internal teams such as Product Management Sales Marketing Global Information Security Customer Success GoToMarket Strategy Finance People & Recruiting and more.

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:

• Leadership: Demonstrate Datadogs platform as well as thought leadership in modern Security and Observability emphasizing our advanced security solutions industry best practices and dedication to providing organizations with superior security posture and management of their at scale environments.
• Advisory: Be a trusted advisor to Sales leaders as well as customer and prospect CISOs and security executives on security ROI value realization and vulnerability analysis. Assist with security opportunity and adoption strategy for individual customers within their vertical of expertise.
• GTM: Identifies industryspecific security threats and trends and their impact during Customer engagements feeding the topoffunnel for Product GTM BVA and Architecture teams. Cocreate industry security solutions via collaboration with Product SAs and Product Management.
• CLevel: Strategically guide CISO/CIO/CTO/CEOlevel customer and prospect executives in rationalizing their security adoption journey investment and operationalizing of security and observability.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) Sales Sales Engineering and Marketing in providing highquality securityfocused technical resources to a broad audience of practitioners and economic buyers.
• Presentations: Lead security architecture and design engagements to demonstrate how Datadog meets the security needs of strategic customers. Participate in Executive Brief conversations in Datadogs Executive Briefing Center (EBC) with highprofile customers and prospects about overall security architecture Security Best Practices and industry security trends.
• Hiring: Assist leadership in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO/CISO teams with a focus on security expertise.

Who You Are:

• Industry Experience: Strong experience of at least 15 years with Enterprise Security architecture at scale and ability to map modern securitycentric architectures to realworld use cases coupled with deep knowledge of the security and observability space cloud and application security as well as technological shifts in the information security space.
• Strategic Thinker: Able to think longterm and creatively about a wide variety of security and business challenges.
• Stakeholder Management: Experienced in interacting and influencing key security stakeholders (VP and CISO/CIO/CTO level) in large Enterprise organizations.
• Technologist: Handson technologist with a strong security background who gains credibility and establishes strong relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Presenter: Excellent customerfacing presentation skills for large audiences comfortable discussing complex security details as well as with briefing executives or nontechnical personas on security topics.
• Communicator: Excellent verbal and written communication skills ability to link security product functionality to business objectives security value realization and ROI.
• Travel: Able to travel via auto train or air up to 50 of the time
• Education: Bachelors degree in engineering or related field Masters degree preferred

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:

• Bestinbreed onboarding
• Generous global benefits
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for inhouse networking
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development product training and career pathing
• An inclusive company culture able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.