Datadog is seeking a strategic, data-driven, and collaborative Area Vice President, Enterprise Security Sales to lead our Enterprise Security Sales organization and scale Datadog’s security business through a tightly integrated co-sell motion with Enterprise Account Executives. This senior leader will own the Enterprise Security strategy, ensuring security resources are deployed effectively to influence pipeline creation, deal progression, and multi-product adoption across Datadog’s largest and most strategic enterprise accounts. This senior leader will be responsible for driving market expansion and establishing Datadog as a trusted strategic partner to CISOs and security leadership teams. The role sits at the intersection of GTM design, sales execution, cross-functional orchestration, and customer value creation—ideal for a leader passionate about scaling high-growth security businesses. 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 work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Recruit, build, manage, and develop a world-class team of Enterprise Security Directors and Enterprise Security Sales Specialists. Own Enterprise Security revenue contribution and influence targets, ensuring consistent attainment through effective co-selling with Enterprise AEs. Inform and evolve Datadog’s Enterprise Security overlay strategy, including coverage models, specialist-to-AE ratios, rules of engagement, and prioritization frameworks. Define and own the Enterprise Security pipeline generation strategy within a co-sell / overlay model, establishing clear rules of engagement for when and how Security Specia
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As a Security Sales Specialist, you'll partner with Enterprise Account Executives to drive adoption of Datadog’s Security platform across key accounts. This is a high-impact role focused on positioning our Security solutions (Cloud SIEM, Cloud Workload Security, CSPM, and more) into new and existing customers—expanding our footprint and helping customers modernize their security stack in the cloud. 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 work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for Datadog Security products across a targeted account patch Collaborate closely with Enterprise AEs to support net new logo acquisition and expansion in strategic accounts Own and drive the sec
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Datadog
We tackle some of the hardest technical problems while delivering a product that "just works" for our customers. And we are backed by some of the best VCs in NYC and the world. Do you want to make a difference? Are you exceptional at your job, and intrinsically motivated by it? Do you eat hard problems for breakfast and find them beautifully simple solutions by lunchtime? Do you ever wish you were there in the early days of these startups everyone is talking about? If so, we want to hear from you.
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