Datadog
Director, Key Accounts
San Francisco, California, USA · Director
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About the role
- Our Director, Key Accounts provides strategy, mentorship, and guidance for a team of Key Account Executives who are responsible for driving new business through the full sales cycle.
- Datadog values people from all walks of life.
- We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one.
Responsibilities
- Manage, hire, train and ramp a team of Key Account Executives responsible for new bookings from prospecting into a target list of key, high potential prospects
- Develop and manage Key Account Executives productivity metrics such as deal size, win rate, and forecast accuracy as well as how to lead a customer through a proactive sales cycle
- Coach Key Account Executives through building executive relationships within a target list of key, high potential prospect accounts through complex Enterprise deals and negotiations
- Work collaboratively with Marketing, Product and Success to build targeted messaging and collateral, and mapping a customer journey for the specific business needs of your region
Requirements
- A strong relationship builder with 5+ years of overall Enterprise sales experience working with Fortune 100 companies
- Passionate about coaching others with a successful track record as an individual contributor and can share relevant and complex closing experience with a growing team
Compensation
- $158,000 - $210,000 USD
- Achieve annual Enterprise bookings quota with monthly and quarterly targets
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Generous and competitive medical benefits package
- Retirement savings match
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
- Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Company info
- It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
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- t opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics
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