Senior Sales Engineer - Key Accounts West

Datadog Inc

San Francisco, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Business Skills, Communication Skills, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Training, DevOps, Enterprise Sales, Establish Priorities, Go Programming Language (Golang), Java, Leadership, Mentoring, Onboarding, Partner Sales, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Product Demonstration, Product Engineering, Professional Services, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Sales Closing Skills, Sales Presentation, Sales/Support Engineering (SE), Scripting (Scripting Languages), Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Analysis, Technical Leadership, Technical Sales, Technical Strategy, Technical Support, Voice Products, Willing to Travel, Writing Skills
LOCATION
San Francisco, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

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.

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, 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-quarter or multi-year cycles

Someone with a minimum of 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or DevOps Engineering role

Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites

Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 45% 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 you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

 

Benefits and Growth:

Best-in-breed onboarding Generous global benefits Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house 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.

About the Company

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Datadog Inc