Manager, Commercial Sales Engineering - Remote

Overview

Datadog is seeking a Manager, Sales Engineering to join our high-growth organization and world-class pre-sales team. You will manage a team of talented Sales Engineers to help qualify and close opportunities and coach the team on their approach to providing technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). This is a hands-on management role where you will take an active technical role in your region supporting customer facing activities and engagements for key accounts.

In Short

• Partner with the Sales Team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers.
• Manage a team of individual contributors, working to expand usage of Datadog in customer accounts.
• Manage resource allocation of your team and ensure their maximum productivity and engagement.
• Assist recruiting efforts to find and hire top talent within your region.
• Ensure that your team is enabled to support all required Datadog solutions along with key technical and soft skills.
• Develop a close working relationship with Product Management, Support, and Enablement.
• Deliver performance reviews along with collaborating on and executing individual development plans.

Requirements

• Experienced with 1-3+ years in a Sales Engineering team lead or mentorship role.
• Coachable, with a strong desire to improve and grow as a professional.
• Proven in your ability to grow and develop a team.
• Experienced in recruiting both individual contributors and front line leaders.
• Knowledgeable in current infrastructure and monitoring solutions and technologies.
• Able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Able to think strategically and creatively about a wide variety of challenges.

Benefits

• Best-in-breed onboarding.
• Generous global benefits.
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks.