Enterprise Sales Executive

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · North Carolina, WA +1 · 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 understanding their pain points in cloud environments and delivering Datadog solutions. The role involves prospecting, building relationships, negotiating deals, and ensuring forecasting accuracy. While the company operates in the AI space, the role itself is sales-focused.

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)
  • Methodology to prospect and build pipeline on your own
  • Selling into large Fortune 1000 companies
  • Ability to win new logos
  • Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites
  • Able to travel up to 70% of the time

Nice to have

  • Innovative tech company experience (SaaS, IT infrastructure or similar preferred)

What the JD emphasized

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