Director, Enterprise Sales - Public Sector (state, Local, Education/sled)

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan · Enterprise Sales

Director, Enterprise Sales - Public Sector (State, Local, Education/SLED) role at Datadog, a company providing an observability and security platform for the AI era. The role involves managing, hiring, training, and ramping a team of Enterprise Sales Executives to drive new business within the Public Sector industry in Japan. Responsibilities include achieving bookings quota, developing sales executives on productivity metrics, building executive relationships, shaping go-to-market strategy, and conducting forecast meetings. Requires experience managing high-performing Enterprise Sales teams, strong relationship building with public sector customers in Japan, and knowledge of selling to C-level executives in the IT space.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage, hire, train and ramp a team of Enterprise Sales Executives responsible for new and expansion bookings within the Public Sector industry in Japan.
  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 public sector customers in Japan
  • Managing complex sales processes with multiple stakeholders and negotiations with pricing based on business value, legal and procurement
  • 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 and can share relevant and complex closing experience with a growing team

Nice to have

  • Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message

What the JD emphasized

  • Public Sector industry in Japan
  • public sector customers in Japan