Principal Partner Manager - Channels (south Emea Gsi)

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Madrid, Spain +1 · Channels & Alliances

This role is for a Partner Sales Manager focused on identifying, recruiting, and enabling strategic Global Systems Integrator (GSI) partners to drive revenue growth and new customer adoption for Datadog's observability and security platform. The role involves working closely with sales teams, coordinating technical and marketing aspects of partnerships, and generating partner-sourced pipeline.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify and recruit new strategic Global SI partners to drive revenue growth
  2. Enable and activate existing GSI partners through training, planning and joint selling activities
  3. Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches
  4. Host regular business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics
  5. Work hand-in-hand with Datadog’s regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations
  6. Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying experience in business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization
  • Proven experience in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships
  • Understanding of, and exposure to working with, the leading Global and regional SIs
  • Ability to quickly understand technical concepts and architectural scenarios, and explain them to others verbally and in writing
  • Willingness to travel 40-50% of the time
  • Experience in identifying market opportunities with a track record of initiating go-to-market plans and sales follow-through

Nice to have

  • Background in SaaS and / or consumption based software platforms
  • Experience with systems management or monitoring
  • Experience with partnerships supporting Containers and/or DevOps, particularly in a cloud environment
  • Technical background/education

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying experience
  • Proven experience in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure
  • track record of initiating go-to-market plans and sales follow-through