Director, Enterprise Sales (SLED)

District of Columbia, USA, Remote; Georgia, USA, Remote; North Carolina, USA, Remote

Enterprise Sales

About the Role

At Datadog in the Technology space, Observe, Secure, and Optimize Modern Cloud Infrastructure at Scale.

Our SLED sales team works with a best-of-breed product that solves real problems for our customers. Sellers follow a well-defined methodology that helps them identify the customer's unique needs and clearly convey the value of the Datadog product. The Datadog sales team is dedicated to furthering personal development and team success. We are searching for an experienced Director, Enterprise Sales (SLED) that will provide strategy, mentorship, and guidance for a team of SLED Sales Executives who are responsible for driving new business through the full sales cycle. This is an established opportunity within the State, Local, and Education team, as we continue to enter into bigger markets, and formalize our support for the Public Sector segments. This division within Datadog will blaze the path for organizational growth.

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:&nbsp;

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<li>Manage, hire, train and ramp a team of Enterprise SLED Sales Executives responsible for new and expansion bookings</li>

<li>Achieve annual SLED bookings quota with monthly and quarterly targets</li>

<li>Develop and manage Enterprise SLED Sales Executives on productivity metrics such as deal size, win rate, and forecast accuracy as well as how to lead a customer through a proactive sales cycle</li>

<li>Coach Sales Executives through building executive relationships with Public Sector accounts in their territories and through complex SLED deals and negotiations</li>

<li>Work collaboratively with Marketing, Product and Success to build targeted messaging and collateral, and mapping a custome

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Datadog is a leading Cloud company that provides monitoring and analytics solutions. The company operates a global presence with headquarters in New York serving as the primary operational base for key executive leadership and corporate functions including engineering, product, sales, and executive leadership. Datadog maintains additional offices across the Americas in Boston, Denver, San Francisco, and throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, and South America.

This position is listed as remote based on the job location.

Salary information may vary by role and location. Please check the specific job listing or discuss compensation during the interview process.

Datadog is an established organization in its industry. The company focuses on maintaining a supportive workplace culture for all employees.

Key benefit categories include: Financial Benefits, Health & Wellness, Work-Life Balance, Community & Growth. You can view more details on their CertCheck profile.

The day-to-day environment is guided by core values such as Collaborative Problem-Solving and Ownership Mentality and Continuous Learning Culture.

The company has committed to inclusive practices including: Empower Ownership and Accountability and Champion Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

Datadog has a supportive and collaborative culture, recognized as a loved place to work by its team members.

Datadog currently has 401 open positions. They are hiring across departments like Finance, Dev Eng, Engineering Interns. You can view all current openings at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/datadog/jobs.

The interview process typically involves an initial recruiter screen followed by team interviews. Please contact Datadog's recruiting team for specific details on this role's process.