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📍 Denver, Colorado, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $124K/yr

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Datadog’s Implementation Services team helps customers implement and deploy Datadog quickly. Our team of architects leads the discovery, design, build, and launch of the Datadog platform to help customers accelerate time to value and get the most out of their investment. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for developing the technical roadmap for a customer’s implementation, and leading them through it every step of the way. 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: Design and guide execution of Datadog implementations, including gathering requirements, building technical architecture, and supporting deployment and launch Guide customer onboarding through co-development working sessions and assist when they run into roadblocks Write automation and design architecture for deployment templates Manage the operation of implementation projects Collaborate with other teams, including Customer Success, Technical Account Management, and Sales to deliver an exceptional onboarding experience Who You Are: Experience designing and delivering technical solutions for DevOps Monitoring or architecture systems Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and compute technologies (EC2, serverless, VMware, VMs, Docker, Kubernetes). Experience with Config Management, IAC and CI/CD tools, including Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, Circle CI, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, etc… Experience programming/scripting with any of the following: Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Node.JS, PHP, and .NET etc Background in security operations, including SOC management, SIEM tooling (e.g. Splunk Professional Services), and designing or supporting zero-trust networking architectures Successful track record with 5+ years exper

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📍 California, USA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $1.8M/yr

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As a Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and Sales. You’ll lead complex technical evaluations, align solutions to business outcomes, and help shape deal strategy in high-impact opportunities. This role goes beyond delivering demos - you’ll own the evaluation experience end-to-end, influence key stakeholders, and help drive successful outcomes across enterprise accounts. 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: Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions and measurable business outcomes Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influence throughout the deal cycle Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams Drive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documen

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📍 California, USA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $1.8M/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

As a Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and Sales. You’ll lead complex technical evaluations, align solutions to business outcomes, and help shape deal strategy in high-impact opportunities. This role goes beyond delivering demos - you’ll own the evaluation experience end-to-end, influence key stakeholders, and help drive successful outcomes across enterprise accounts. 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: Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions and measurable business outcomes Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influence throughout the deal cycle Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams Drive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documen

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📍 USA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $149K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

As a Key Accounts Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. What You’ll Do: Partner with the Sales, Product/Engineering, Customer Success, Professional Services, and executive leadership to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Lead technical strategy for both short-term and long-cycle pursuits by driving the end-to-end technical sales agenda for Fortune 100 and comparable prospects — from pipeline generation through purchase decision Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Present at executive and technical forums, lead workshops, and translate technical detail to business impact for CIOs, SRE/Platform teams, security/compliance, and engineering leadership Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input both wins and losses Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape Who You Are: Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer Someone with strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires an ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering Experienced in programming/scripting with one or more languages (i.e. Python, Go, Java, etc.) and familiarity with DevOps practices such as CI/CD and IaC workflows Demonstrated ability to land into net new logo accounts and collaborate with prospects through long, multi-quarte

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📍 New York, California, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $220K/yr

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About the role: Datadog is building a product-led Competitive Intelligence function to help inform product strategy, roadmap prioritization, positioning, and competitive readiness. As the Head of Competitive Intelligence you will build and lead the CompIntel function across priority competitors and adjacent market opportunities. You will translate competitor product evolution, technical capabilities, launches, pricing value, customer sentiment, analyst narratives, and ecosystem shifts into actionable insights for Product, GTM, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Technical Advocacy, and leadership. In this highly technical, hands-on leadership role, you should understand how observability products are implemented, where workflows differ, what technical claims are credible, and how product gaps translate into customer impact. What You'll Do: Own the recurring competitive radar for Datadog’s priority competitor set, including taxonomy, source standards, evidence quality, and update cadence. Produce competitive deep dives, feature-gap analyses, early-warning briefs, and opportunity assessments tied to specific product domains and leadership questions. Translate CompIntel findings into roadmap recommendations, product differentiation hypotheses, and Product-facing decision guidance. Build and maintain a central CompIntel repository with competitor profiles, source notes, comparison frameworks, evidence logs, and decision-ready briefs. Convert validated findings into GTM-ready handoffs for battlecards, objection handling, strategic deal narratives, and field enablement. Synthesize signals from Product, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, field teams, technical communities, Advocacy programs, win/loss, customer feedback, analyst research, public competitor materials, and CABs. Partner with Product Management to frame competitive questions, identify decision criteria, and connect findings to roadmap and prioritization discussions. Partner with Tec

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📍 Florida, USA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $100K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

Our Enterprise Sales Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll 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 work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll 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 customer's 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 3+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or 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 unde

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📍 USA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $100K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

Our Enterprise Sales Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll 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 work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll 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 customer's 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 3+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or 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 unde

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📍 Georgia, USA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $100K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

Our Enterprise Sales Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll 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 work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll 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 customer's 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 3+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or 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 Role requires regular travel to client sites, within your area and other regions, using various modes of transportation (car, train, air), depending on business needs. Datadog

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $100K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

Our Enterprise Sales Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll 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 work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll 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 customer's 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 3+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or 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 Role requires regular travel to client sites, within your area and other regions, using various modes of transportation (car, train, air), depending on business needs. Datadog

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $156K/yr

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Developers are shipping more code than ever, accelerated by AI-assisted development and increasingly complex software delivery workflows. As a Product Manager II on the Developer Engagement team, you'll help bring Datadog's insights and automation directly into the tools developers use every day, making software delivery faster, safer, and more efficient. You'll define customer-facing experiences that connect Datadog's observability, CI/CD, testing, security, and AI capabilities with pull requests, code reviews, and developer workflows. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams while shaping the future of software delivery for developers. 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: Partner with customers, developers, platform engineering teams, and internal stakeholders to understand software delivery challenges and identify opportunities to improve developer workflows. Own the product strategy and roadmap for developer-facing experiences within pull requests, code reviews, and source code management platforms. Collaborate across Software Delivery products to surface actionable insights from CI/CD Optimization, Test Optimization, Code Coverage, Code Security, Deployment Gates, Bits AI, and future capabilities. Work across source code ecosystems including GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, and enterprise environments to deliver scalable integrations. Partner with engineering teams to connect Datadog signals with recommendations, AI-assisted workflows, generated fixes, and future automated remediation experiences. Measure product success using customer adoption, engagement, feedback, and business outcomes while partnering with Sales, Product Marketing, Solutions Engineering, Custo

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📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $100K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

Our Enterprise Sales Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll 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 work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll 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 customer's 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 3+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or 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 unde

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📍 USA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $82K/yr

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Individual Contributor JD: We are looking for an experienced Channel & Alliances sales professional to build and accelerate growth with our channel partners by identifying and recruiting new partners for long-term success as well as manage ongoing relationships with key strategic partners, including professional services partners and resellers. Our ultimate goal is developing alliances that drive both customer adoption and new revenue. This is a great opportunity for you to join a cloud software company and help blaze the path for our company's growth. What You’ll Do: Identify and recruit new strategic partners to drive revenue growth Enable and activate existing partners through training, enablement and joint selling Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches Host quarterly business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics Work hand-in-hand with Datadog’s regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue Who You Are: 5+ years of experience in business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization Proven experience in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships Ability to quickly understand technical concepts and architectural scenarios, and explain them to others verbally and in writing Willingness to travel 25-50% of the time Bonus points: Experience with systems management or monitoring Experience with partnerships supporting DevOps, particularly in a cloud environment Technical background/education Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for taking initiatives from ideation to impact Passion for fast-paced, sometimes unpredictable growth culture and environment Experience in identifying market opportunities with a track record of initiatin

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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As a Mid-Market Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. Additionally, you will work with various teams to resolve customer concerns, escalate bug issues, and serve as an ambassador for our brand. If you want to join a friendly, passionate team with limitless potential, we’d love to meet you! 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: Partner with the sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Assist with technical discovery on key accounts and opportunities Deliver tailored product and technical presentations with potential clients Help clients evaluate the platform and assist when they run into roadblocks. Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. This entails communicating datadog’s value throughout an evaluation and working with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape Who You Are: </p&

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📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $118K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

As a Mid-Market Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. Additionally, you will work with various teams to resolve customer concerns, escalate bug issues, and serve as an ambassador for our brand. If you want to join a friendly, passionate team with limitless potential, we’d love to meet you! 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: Partner with the sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Assist with technical discovery on key accounts and opportunities Deliver tailored product and technical presentations with potential clients Help clients evaluate the platform and assist when they run into roadblocks. Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. This entails communicating datadog’s value throughout an evaluation and working with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape Who You Are: Someone with a minimum of 1.5 years experience in a Sales Engineering role Previous Observability experience Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer Someone with strong written and oral communicati

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📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.8%

From $100K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

Our Enterprise Sales Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll 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 work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll 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 customer's 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 3+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or 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 Role requires regular travel to client sites, within your area and other regions, using various modes of transportation (car, train, air), depending on business needs. Datadog

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