Datadog · 4 hours ago
Field CTO - Media & Entertainment
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$280K/yr - $380K/yr
10+ years expDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on enabling digital transformation and infrastructure monitoring. They are seeking a customer-focused Field CTO to oversee the technical strategy for the Media and Entertainment industry, acting as a trusted advisor and collaborating with various internal teams to drive customer success and growth.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Demonstrate Datadog's platform as well as thought leadership in Observability and Security, emphasizing our advanced solutions, industry best practices, and dedication to providing organizations with superior visibility and management of their at scale environments
Be a trusted advisor to Sales leaders as well as customer and prospect executives on ROI, value realization and white-space analysis. Assist with opportunity and adoption strategy for individual customers within their vertical of expertise
Identifies industry specific trends and their impact and potential during Customers engagements, feeding the top-of-funnel for Product, GTM, BVA and Architecture teams. Co-create industry solutions via collaboration with Product SAs and Product Management
Strategically guide CIO/CTO/CEO/CISO-level customer and prospect executives in rationalizing their adoption journey, investment and operationalizing of observability
Collaborate with Product Solutions Architecture (PSA), Sales, Sales Engineering and Marketing in providing high-quality technical resources to a broad audience of practitioners and economic buyers
Lead architecture and design engagements to demonstrate how Datadog meets the needs of strategic customers. Participate in Executive Brief conversations in Datadog’s Executive Briefing Center (EBC) with high profile customers and prospects about overall architecture, Observability Best Practices and industry trends
Assist leadership in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO teams
Qualification
Required
Strong experience of at least 10+ years with Enterprise architecture or Application architecture at scale and ability to map architectures to real world use cases
Deep knowledge of the observability space, cloud, and technological shifts for customers, preferably with emphasis on the Media and Entertainment industry in the AMER region
Able to think long term and creatively about a wide variety of technical and business challenges
Experienced in interacting and influencing key stakeholders (VP+ and C level) in large Enterprise organizations
Hands-on technologist who gains credibility and establishes strong relationships at all levels of the organization
Excellent customer-facing presentation skills for large audiences, comfortable discussing complex technical details as well as with briefing executives or non-technical personas
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to link product functionality to business objectives, value realization and ROI
Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 50% of the time
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field
Preferred
Master's degree
Benefits
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
Healthcare
Dental
Parental planning
Mental health benefits
A 401(k) plan and match
Paid time off
Fitness reimbursements
A discounted employee stock purchase plan
Company
Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthIndex VenturesOpenView
2024-12-09Post Ipo Debt· $870M
2020-05-28Post Ipo Debt
2019-09-19IPO
Leadership Team
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder, CEO
Alexis Le-Quoc
Co-founder & CTO
Recent News
2025-12-18
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