Enterprise Sales Executive (sweden)

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Stockholm, Sweden · Enterprise Sales

Enterprise Sales Executive role at Datadog, focusing on closing new business with large strategic customers. The role involves prospecting, building relationships, understanding customer pain points in cloud environments, negotiating deals, and ensuring forecasting accuracy. Requires 3+ years of closing experience, a track record of meeting sales goals, and experience selling into large Fortune 1000 companies, preferably in SaaS or IT infrastructure.

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
  • Proven track record of meeting/exceeding sales goals
  • Experience selling into large enterprise companies
  • Ability to prospect and build pipeline independently
  • Strong negotiation skills
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills

Nice to have

  • Experience in SaaS, IT infrastructure or similar tech companies
  • Familiarity with sales methodologies like MEDDIC

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