Director, Enterprise Sales

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Boston, MA · Enterprise Sales

Director, Enterprise Sales at Datadog, a platform for the AI era, responsible for leading a sales team to drive new business and achieve bookings quotas. The role involves strategy, mentorship, managing sales executives, developing go-to-market strategy, and collaborating with other departments. Datadog uses AI to detect and resolve issues.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage, hire, train and ramp a team of Enterprise Sales Executives responsible for new and expansion bookings
  2. Achieve annual Enterprise bookings quota with monthly and quarterly targets
  3. Develop and manage Enterprise 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
  4. Coach Sales Executives through building executive relationships with Named Enterprise accounts in their territories and through complex Enterprise deals and negotiations
  5. Shape the direction of the go-to market strategy and execution for your region

Skills

Required

  • Managing a high performing Enterprise Sales team for a B2B technology company
  • 5+ years of overall Enterprise sales experience working with Fortune 1000 companies
  • Managing complex sales processes with multiple stakeholders and negotiations
  • Selling to C-level executives in the IT space
  • Setting quotas and managing people against those quotas
  • Coaching others with a successful track record as an individual contributor
  • Sharing relevant and complex closing experience with a growing team
  • Travel to client sites

Nice to have

  • Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message

What the JD emphasized

  • full sales cycle
  • new business
  • expansion bookings
  • Enterprise Sales Executives
  • Enterprise bookings quota
  • Enterprise Sales Executives
  • complex Enterprise deals
  • Enterprise Sales team
  • Enterprise sales experience
  • Fortune 1000 companies
  • complex sales processes
  • C-level executives
  • setting quotas
  • managing people against those quotas
  • complex closing experience