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Director, Key Accounts

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πŸ“œ Description

  • Manage, hire, train, and ramp Key Account Executives pursuing new business from high-potential prospects.
  • Drive annual enterprise bookings quota against monthly and quarterly targets.
  • Set and manage productivity metrics, including deal size, win rate, and forecast accuracy.
  • Coach executives on building customer relationships and navigating complex enterprise deals and negotiations.
  • Shape regional go-to-market strategy and collaborate with Marketing, Product, and Success on messaging and customer journeys.
  • Lead weekly forecast meetings and support client and prospect meetings with direct reports.

πŸ› οΈ Requirements

  • A strong relationship builder with 5+ years of overall Enterprise sales experience working with Fortune 100 companies
  • Confident in managing complex sales processes with multiple stakeholders and negotiations with pricing based on business value, legal and procurement
  • Knowledgeable in selling to C-level executives in the IT space
  • Experienced in setting quotas and managing people against those quotas
  • Passionate about coaching others with a successful track record as an individual contributor and can share relevant and complex closing experience with a growing team
  • Role requires regular travel to client sites, within your area and other regions, using various modes of transportation (car, train, air), depending on business needs.

✨ Benefits

  • High income earning opportunities based on self performance
  • New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development
  • Product training
  • Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
  • Generous and competitive medical benefits package
  • Retirement savings match
  • Pet adoption and insurance program
Full job description

Our Director, Key Accounts provides strategy, mentorship, and guidance for a team of Key Account Executives who are responsible for driving new business through the full sales cycle.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.


What You’ll Do:

  • Manage, hire, train and ramp a team of Key Account Executives responsible for new bookings from prospecting into a target list of key, high potential prospects
  • Achieve annual Enterprise bookings quota with monthly and quarterly targets
  • Develop and manage Key Account Executives productivity metrics such as deal size, win rate, and forecast accuracy as well as how to lead a customer through a proactive sales cycle
  • Coach Key Account Executives through building executive relationships within a target list of key, high potential prospect accounts through complex Enterprise deals and negotiations
  • Shape the direction of the go-to market strategy and execution for your region
  • Work collaboratively with Marketing, Product and Success to build targeted messaging and collateral, and mapping a customer journey for the specific business needs of your region
  • Conduct weekly forecast meetings
  • Support direct reports by participating and leading in client and prospect meetings. Engaging other corporate resources as required

Who You Are:

  • Experienced in managing a high performing Enterprise Sales team for a B2B technology company
  • A strong relationship builder with 5+ years of overall Enterprise sales experience working with Fortune 100 companies
  • Confident in managing complex sales processes with multiple stakeholders and negotiations with pricing based on business value, legal and procurement
  • Knowledgeable in selling to C-level executives in the IT space
  • Experienced in setting quotas and managing people against those quotas
  • Passionate about coaching others with a successful track record as an individual contributor and can share relevant and complex closing experience with a growing team
  • Role requires regular travel to client sites, within your area and other regions, using various modes of transportation (car, train, air), depending on business needs.


Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

  • High income earning opportunities based on self performance
  • New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
  • Generous and competitive medical benefits package
  • Retirement savings match
  • Pet adoption and insurance program

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$158,000-$210,000 USD

About Datadog:

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.


Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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