Datadog · 2 days ago
Manager, Commercial Sales Engineering (AMER - West)
Datadog is a global SaaS business that is seeking a Manager, Sales Engineering to lead their pre-sales team. The role involves managing a team of Sales Engineers, enhancing customer engagement, and ensuring effective collaboration with other departments to drive sales success.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Partner with the Sales Team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
Manage a team of individual contributors, working to expand usage of Datadog in customer accounts
Manage resource allocation of your team and ensure their maximum productivity and engagement
Assist recruiting efforts to find and hire top talent within your region. Mentor/coach new hires during on-boarding to ensure proper ramping of skills and capabilities
Ensure that your team is enabled to support all required Datadog solutions along with key technical and soft skills
Develop a close working relationship with Product Management, Support, and Enablement to ensure continuity between pre and post sales activities
Deliver performance reviews along with collaborating on and executing individual development plans
Qualification
Required
Experienced with 1-3+ years in a Sales Engineering team lead or mentorship role and 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or other equivalent client facing role
Coachable, with a strong desire to improve and grow as a professional and a demonstrated ability to navigate through change
Proven in your ability to grow and develop a team
Experienced in recruiting both individual contributors and front line leaders
Knowledgeable in current infrastructure and monitoring solutions and technologies
Able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer and mentor others on how to do so
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 while also coaching others how to do so
Able to think strategically and creatively about a wide variety of challenges
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.
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
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2024-12-09Post Ipo Debt· $870M
2020-05-28Post Ipo Debt
2019-09-19IPO
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