Enterprise Sales Executive

Datadog is seeking an Enterprise Sales Executive to target and close new business with its largest, most strategic customers and prospects. The role focuses on uncovering pain points as organizations operate in or migrate to cloud environments at scale and delivering the appropriate Datadog solution.

• 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.
• Have an 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.

• 3+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or enterprise).
• 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).

• High income earning opportunities based on self performance.
• New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message.
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
• Inclusive company culture, opportunity to join Community Guilds.
• Generous and competitive medical benefits package.
• Retirement savings match.
• Pet adoption and insurance program.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders.