Enterprise Sales Executive

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Mexico City, Mexico · Remote · Enterprise Sales

This role is for an Enterprise Sales Executive at Datadog, a company that provides an observability and security platform for the AI era. The executive will target and close new business with large, strategic customers, focusing on their challenges in cloud environments and delivering Datadog solutions. The role involves prospecting, building relationships, negotiating, and ensuring forecasting accuracy. While Datadog is an AI company, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building or shipping AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Prospect into large Fortune 1000 companies while running an efficient sales process
  2. Maintain, build and own specific relationship maps for your territory including existing relationships and aspirational contacts
  3. Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business
  4. Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI
  5. Handle existing customer expectations while expanding reach and depth into assigned territory

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or enterprise)
  • Demonstrate methodology to prospect and build pipeline on your own
  • Experienced in selling into large Fortune 1000 companies
  • Ability to win new logos
  • Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message

Nice to have

  • Innovative tech company experience (SaaS, IT infrastructure or similar preferred)
  • Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution
  • Intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation
  • Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities
  • High forecasting accuracy and consistency

What the JD emphasized

  • closing experience
  • direct sales goals of 1M+
  • average deal size of $100k+
  • selling into large Fortune 1000 companies
  • win new logos