Manager, Mid-market Sales (san Francisco)

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Market Sales

Manager, Mid-Market Sales role at Datadog, focusing on strategy, mentorship, and guidance for a team of Account Executives selling a proven product into a multi-billion dollar market. Responsibilities include team motivation, forecasting, hiring, training, lead generation, pipeline management, and monitoring the sales funnel. Requires experience in tech industry direct sales, familiarity with SaaS/Cloud and Salesforce, and proven ability to manage an outbound sales team.

What you'd actually do

  1. Motivate your team to exceed objectives
  2. Develop and maintain accurate team forecasts
  3. Hire, oversee, and train a team of Mid-Market Account Executives
  4. Drive lead generation, high activity standards, and pipeline management
  5. Facilitate the ramp up for all new team members, coaching them to success
  6. Monitor the sales funnel from prospect to close and create metrics to improve performance

Skills

Required

  • tech industry direct sales experience
  • SaaS/Cloud familiarity
  • Salesforce familiarity
  • accurate team forecasting
  • coaching
  • mentorship
  • team management
  • outbound sales team management
  • sales cycle management

Nice to have

  • MEDDIC
  • Command of the Message

What the JD emphasized

  • direct sales
  • SaaS/Cloud
  • Salesforce
  • accurately forecast team performance
  • overseeing an outbound sales team in all areas of the sales cycle