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We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The technical solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. The Partner Solution Architect (PSA) is a Datadog expert who will work closely with Datadog’s Director of Partner Solutions Architects, and is aligned to our Channels & Alliances business segment. The PSA is responsible for supporting a variety of technical initiatives and activities for our partners (for example: cloud migration, application modernization, DevOps transformation). They are accountable for the outcome of these initiatives, and frequently collaborate with both Datadog and Partner resources to drive success. The PSA is a trusted technical advisor for our Partner channel. 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: Ensure the successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources; Participate in periodic joint business planning and review sessions to ensure direct alignment between Datadog and Partner technical teams; Collaborate internally to support Partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations and proofs of value; partner team enablement workshops; assessment, advice, and coaching on lead practices; Advocate on behalf of Partners’ technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues, e.g.) with Datadog internal teams and personnel, helping to bring those concerns to resolution; Analyze and understand Partner service offerings on a regular basis and provide recommendations to enhance the value of those services through greater or improved adoption of Datadog features and capabilities; Collaborate with Datadog’s product management, engineering and techn

Datadog's Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) group is one of the company's fastest-growing product areas, spanning Real User Monitoring (RUM), Product Analytics, Synthetic Monitoring, Feature Flags, and Datadog Studio, our newest AI-native observability surface. As Director, you will own engineering for one or more of these product areas, with scope shaped by your background and interests, and you will manage 50-60 engineers through a team of Engineering Managers. You'll partner with Senior Directors and product leadership to shape the roadmap, not just execute against it, and you'll help drive AI adoption across engineering tooling, workflows, and product features. This role is based in Paris, one of Datadog's most established engineering hubs, with a clear growth path to Senior Director for the right candidate. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Own engineering for one or more DEM product areas with scope calibrated to your background and strengths Manage 50-60 engineers through a layer of Engineering Managers; this is a manager-of-managers role Shape the roadmap alongside product leadership rather than simply executing against it — push back on, iterate on, and help author the strategy for your area Drive AI adoption across the engineering org, from tooling and workflows to product features and team practices Navigate cross-team dependencies across DEM, APM, Core Platform, AI Platform, and Data Science Build and retain engineering talent in Paris, mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness, and participate in the on-call rotation Who You Are: You have directly managed Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors — this is a non-negotiable requirement for the role You integrate

Datadog’s Cloud Observability group is one of the core data retrieval and processing groups powering our foundational product, Infrastructure Monitoring. The group’s scope includes integration with all major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), as well as both regional and GPU-specific cloud providers. As Director, you will own engineering for all clouds, generating more than 10 million metric points per second, managing ~40 engineers through a team of Engineering Managers. You’ll partner with Senior Directors and product leadership to shape the roadmap, not just execute against it, managing the growth of one of Datadog’s foundational teams. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Own engineering for all of Cloud Observability Manage ~40 engineers through a layer of Engineering Managers; this is a manager-of-managers role Shape the roadmap alongside product leadership rather than simply executing against it — push back on, iterate on, and help author the strategy for your area Drive AI adoption across the engineering org, from tooling and workflows to product features and team practices Navigate cross-team dependencies across the Agent, Telemetry Onboarding, Integrations, Action Platform, and Infrastructure Monitoring. Build and retain engineering talent in NYC, Boston, and Paris, mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness, and participate in the on-call rotation Who You Are: You have directly managed Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors You have deep experience with one or more cloud providers, ideally with experience operating large-scale systems in the cloud. You have a solid understanding of cloud economics, as well as how to balance performance and cos

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Okta Partners & Global Alliances team The Partners & Global Alliances team is part of Okta’s Revenue Organization. We manage the largest and most complex relationships from Cloud Marketplaces, Resellers, Distributors and Global/Systems Integrators with a laser focus on driving sales and deployments of Okta’s software that deliver speed-to value for our customers.. The Global Alliance Director, PwC opportunity Reporting to the VP of Global System Integrators, the Global Alliance Director will partner closely with Theater Leaders across our AMER, EMEA and APJ regions to drive initiatives across PwC to grow their Okta practice. This person will set the partnership strategy, create and own annual planning, joint investments as well as plan execution. This role will set the stage for executive interlock, rhythm of business and outlining key areas of opportunity. What you’ll be doing Develop and execute joint co-selling strategies with PwC to drive vertical sales plays that solve customer problems Work closely with Okta sales leaders to drive account alignment with PwC account leads and foster collaborative relationships Lead the annual partnership planning process, including joint investments, co-innovation target customers, pipeline and execution plans Work closely with Okta’s Sales Engineering and Product Teams to drive deep understanding and advocate for Okta’s product line inside PwC Own and drive the global pipeline with PwC Co

About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. Within Education, we partner with universities, schools, research institutions, and countrywide education systems to advance responsible, mission-aligned uses of AI. These environments require more than technical deployment: success depends on institutional trust, thoughtful governance, stakeholder education, change management, and a value narrative that resonates with academic leaders, researchers, IT teams, faculty, administrators, and students. About the Role As an Applied AI Architect for Education, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of education customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business,” shaping each institution’s AI strategy and guiding its journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable institutional impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Edu, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate institutional priorities into a focused portfolio of use cases, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable value and growth. The Account Director owns the commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will work across academic, research, administrative, and operational contexts—helping cus

The Team + The Role Mind the Product Training helps organizations build better products by connecting them with product management expertise, training, and advisory services. Through a network of trainers and product leaders, the team helps companies improve how they develop products, operate as data-driven organizations, and evolve in the era of AI. As Sr. Program Manager, Mind the Product Training, you will build and deliver customer training programs that are well-scoped, operationally strong, and aligned to customer goals. You will partner with the Director of Mind the Product, Program Management colleagues, customers, trainers, advisors, and internal stakeholders to shape solutions, operationalize engagements, and deliver a consistently high-quality customer experience. This role is not responsible for writing individual class content. This is a role based in-office in San Francisco or Raleigh or Remote in the United States. What this looks like day-to-day Training opportunity assessment: Partner with the Director of Mind the Product to qualify inbound training opportunities and shape program approaches that address specific customer business challenges. Translate customer goals into practical engagement structures that can be delivered effectively. Program operations and delivery: Coordinate the onboarding of training customers, gather key engagement details, schedule sessions, and manage the operational steps required for smooth delivery. Facilitate trainer selection based on the client’s industry, location, and training needs while ensuring trainers receive the background needed to customize delivery. Pre-training readiness: Manage pre-training communication with clients to collect attendee lists, schedule sessions and send attendees pre-class materials. Post-class follow-up: Collect feedback from attendees, trainers, and clients after each engagement. Generate client feedback reports that summarize key takeaways, performance metrics, and opportunities to im

The Team + The Role Pendo’s Customer Engineering team is the technical backbone of the company’s pre- and post-sales customer motion. The team supports growth by bringing technical ownership across the full customer lifecycle, from discovery and evaluation through implementation, adoption, retention, and expansion. As a Customer Engineer, you are the primary technical resource for a portfolio of Commercial accounts. You partner with Account Directors to own discovery, demos, onboarding, technical health, risk, and expansion strategy. You serve as a trusted technical advisor who helps customers drive outcomes with Pendo. This role is based in our Raleigh office. What this looks like day-to-day Customer acquisition: Partner with Account Directors to understand customer pain, business goals, and technical requirements. Craft and deliver demos, define success criteria, guide installation, and lead hands-on technical evaluations and workshops. Technical discovery and implementation: Lead discovery conversations across product stacks, integration environments, and customer goals. Own onboarding for purchased modules, troubleshoot integrations, and answer technical questions related to APIs, data models, configuration, and front-end implementation. Adoption and value: Monitor usage signals, identify low adoption or configuration drift, and act before issues become escalations. Facilitate enablement workshops, support account health planning, and help customers measure and articulate the ROI of Pendo. Retention and expansion: Identify technical expansion paths in your portfolio and hand them to Account Directors with clear deployment plans and business rationale. Support growth opportunities by bringing a strong technical point of view on customer needs, readiness, and value. Risk ownership: Own the technical dimension of account risk, including champion turnover, integration issues, stalled rollouts, and technical blockers. Document risks in Salesforce, build mitigation pl

About the Team OpenAI’s Enterprise Go-To-Market organization helps the world’s largest companies adopt and scale our AI platform across their business, from ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer and APIs. We partner with organizations across Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Retail to build new AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done in highly regulated and technically complex environments. As adoption accelerates through pilots, experimentation, and develop-led use cases, the GTM team turns that momentum into durable, enterprise-wide deployments. About the Role This role is designed as a launchpad for future sellers at OpenAI. This is a highly strategic role with significant exposure to enterprise sales, product, and customer strategy. You’ll develop core skills in discovery, stakeholder mapping, deal shaping, and executive communication while building a deep understanding of how leading companies adopt AI. We are looking for individuals with 4-6+ years of professional experience who are motivated to grow into world-class enterprise sellers over time. While many individuals in this role go on to become Account Directors or take on broader GTM roles, progression is based on performance and business needs rather than a fixed timeline. For the right person, this is one of the most accelerated paths to break into sales at OpenAI and build a long-term career in AI go-to-market. In this role, you will identify, shape, and advance complex enterprise opportunities by turning product usage, pilots, and inbound demand into qualified, high-conviction enterprise opportunities for our large Enterprise and Strategic Accounts teams. In this role, you will: Partner with Account Directors on account strategy, multi-threading, and deal progression Design and execute targeted outbound strategies using industry context, stakeholder mapping, and product signal to break into priority accounts Lead high-quality discovery to uncover busin

About the Team OpenAI’s Enterprise Go-To-Market organization helps the world’s largest companies adopt and scale our AI platform across their business, from ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer and APIs. We partner with organizations across Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Retail to build new AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done in highly regulated and technically complex environments. As adoption accelerates through pilots, experimentation, and develop-led use cases, the GTM team turns that momentum into durable, enterprise-wide deployments. About the Role This role is designed as a launchpad for future sellers at OpenAI. This is a highly strategic role with significant exposure to enterprise sales, product, and customer strategy. You’ll develop core skills in discovery, stakeholder mapping, deal shaping, and executive communication while building a deep understanding of how leading companies adopt AI. We are looking for individuals with 4-6+ years of professional experience who are motivated to grow into world-class enterprise sellers over time. While many individuals in this role go on to become Account Directors or take on broader GTM roles, progression is based on performance and business needs rather than a fixed timeline. For the right person, this is one of the most accelerated paths to break into sales at OpenAI and build a long-term career in AI go-to-market. In this role, you will identify, shape, and advance complex enterprise opportunities by turning product usage, pilots, and inbound demand into qualified, high-conviction enterprise opportunities for our large Enterprise and Strategic Accounts teams. In this role, you will: Partner with Account Directors on account strategy, multi-threading, and deal progression Design and execute targeted outbound strategies using industry context, stakeholder mapping, and product signal to break into priority accounts Lead high-quality discovery to uncover busin

The Team + The Role Pendo’s Customer Engineering team is the technical backbone of the pre- and post-sales customer motion. The team brings together work that has historically sat across Customer Success, Technical Account Management, and Solutions Engineering into one full-lifecycle technical owner. Customer Engineering helps customers connect technical execution to business outcomes and realize the value of their investment in Pendo. As a Senior Customer Engineer, you own strategic and complex Enterprise accounts across acquisition, implementation, adoption, expansion, and escalation. You lead technical strategy for complex deployments, resolve ambiguous customer challenges, and partner closely with account teams to drive retention, expansion, and customer value. Your impact extends beyond your own accounts through playbooks, coaching, repeatable fixes, and workflow improvements that raise the capability of the broader Customer Engineering team. This is a remote role supporting a West Coast territory. What this looks like day-to-day New customer acquisition and selling: Partner with Account Directors on pre-sales motions for new customer acquisition, product expansion, and expansion across lines of business. You identify customer pain, craft and deliver tailored demos, and lead technical evaluations through requirements gathering, success criteria, installation guidance, and hands-on workshops. Complex implementations and value realization: Lead onboarding for strategic customers, including planning, implementation, integrations, and training. You build customer-specific implementation playbooks, guide complex deployments with executive visibility, and ensure customers realize value during onboarding and over time. Adoption, expansion, and growth: Identify opportunities to expand adoption across underutilized features, untapped products, and new lines of business. When adoption stalls, you diagnose root causes, design a path forward, and connect technical wo

The Team + The Role Pendo’s Customer Engineering team is the technical backbone of the pre- and post-sales customer motion. The team brings together work across Customer Success, Technical Account Management, and Solutions Engineering into one full-lifecycle technical owner. Customer Engineering helps customers connect technical execution to business outcomes and realize the value of their investment in Pendo. As a Senior Customer Engineer for the ANZ region, you will own accounts across acquisition, implementation, adoption, expansion, and escalation. You will lead technical strategy for complex deployments, resolve ambiguous customer challenges, and partner closely with account teams to drive retention, expansion, and customer value. Your impact will extend beyond your own accounts through playbooks, coaching, repeatable fixes, and workflow improvements that raise the capability of the broader Customer Engineering team. This role is based in our Sydney office. What this looks like day-to-day New customer acquisition and selling: Partner with Account Directors on pre-sales motions for new customer acquisition, product expansion, and growth across lines of business. You identify customer pain, craft and deliver tailored demos, and lead technical evaluations through requirements gathering, success criteria, installation guidance, and hands-on workshops. Quarterly business outcomes: Drive measurable improvement in customer health, retention, expansion, and technical resolution across strategic accounts. You contribute at least one reusable framework, playbook, or process that other Customer Engineers use and become a trusted advisor to Account Directors on account health and technical strategy. Adoption, expansion, and growth: Identify opportunities to expand adoption across underutilized features, untapped products, and new lines of business. When adoption stalls, you diagnose root causes, design a path forward, and connect technical work to measurable business outco

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. We are seeking a Sales Engineer to join our team. This is a remote (based in either Spain, Belgium, Poland or UK&I) role, reporting directly to the Global Velocity Director of Partner Engineering within our Virtual Solution Center division. In this role, you will be a vital member of the Solution Center team, driving initial technical pre-sales engagements for our internal groups and external partners. Your core focus will center on mastering our ecosystem, executing foundational technical strategies, and progressively cultivating the expertise necessary to directly sway partner-driven business opportunities. Working in tandem with experienced engineers, you will assist with platform demonstrations, initial discovery sessions, and partner enablement initiatives, all while building the deep business insights and technical capabilities required to advance into a standalone Sales Engineer position. Responsibilities: Del

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Senior Sales Engineering Manager to join our team. This is a Remote role, reporting to the Sales Engineering Director, Greater Asia in the Solutions Consulting department. In this role, you will lead a high-performing Sales Engineering team to design and present comprehensive technical solutions that drive revenue and customer success. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional leadership, product teams, and account executives to support the entire sales lifecycle and influence product enhancements based on strategic market feedback. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Partner with Regional Directors, product, and engineering teams to close deals and deliver high-impact strategic solutions for customers and partners Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing Sales Engineering team within the geography Collaborate with sales leadership and customers to design and present comprehensive

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. We are seeking an Associate Solutions Consultant II to join our team. This is a remote (based in either Spain, Belgium, Poland or UK&I) role, reporting directly to the Global Velocity Director of Partner Engineering within our Virtual Solution Center division. In this role, you will be a vital member of the Solution Center team, driving initial technical pre-sales engagements for our internal groups and external partners. Your core focus will center on mastering our ecosystem, executing foundational technical strategies, and progressively cultivating the expertise necessary to directly sway partner-driven business opportunities. Working in tandem with experienced engineers, you will assist with platform demonstrations, initial discovery sessions, and partner enablement initiatives, all while building the deep business insights and technical capabilities required to advance into a standalone Sales Engineer posit

The Team + The Role Pendo’s Professional Services team is part of the broader Strategy & Transformation organization. The team helps customers transform how they operate, not just how they use Pendo, through technical and strategic consulting. This work spans complex technical engagements, including system migrations, integrations, and data work, as well as advisory support that helps customers evolve their processes, teams, and ways of working. As a Sr. Professional Services Engineer Consultant, you will own the design and delivery of complex technical engagements. You will work at the intersection of product, data, and engineering, extending Pendo’s capabilities through custom integrations, data pipelines, APIs, and technical solutions that connect Pendo to customers’ broader ecosystems. You will partner with consultants and Customer Engineers to deliver outcome-driven engagements that accelerate time to value and enable long-term customer success. This role is based in Raleigh, San Francisco or remote What this looks like day-to-day Engagement design and scoping: Partner with Account Directors and Customer Engineers to qualify Professional Services opportunities and distinguish transformation gaps from tooling gaps. Lead scoping conversations with customer stakeholders, define the problem, validate appetite, design engagement structures, and author Statements of Work that are commercially sound and delivery-ready. Custom integrations and data solutions: Design and build technical solutions that extend Pendo’s capabilities and integrate with customer systems. Write production-quality code, build APIs, design data pipelines, and implement ETL processes across data warehouses, analytics platforms, BI tools, and emerging AI/ML systems. Technical project delivery: Own multiple complex technical projects end-to-end, including data engineering and system integration work. Lead execution, troubleshoot issues, provide technical leadership on escalated engagements, and