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Director, Enterprise Sales Engineering - US East

Datadog · Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA · On-site

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About Datadog

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About the role

As a Director, Enterprise Sales Engineering, you will lead a team of frontline leaders, driving account strategy, deal execution, operational excellence, and team development across your region. This is a strategic leadership role with regional impact within North America. You will act as a force multiplier by owning team and region performance, shaping execution standards, and partnering closely with Sales leadership to influence go to market strategy, improve outcomes, and scale impact beyond individual deals.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience leading frontline SE leaders in a customer-facing technical organization with proven ability to manage team performance, develop team members, and scale high-performing teams
  • 10+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a technical customer-facing role
  • Demonstrated success leading solution engineering teams with senior stakeholders across Product, SRE, DevOps, and Engineering teams
  • Is naturally proactive, constantly introducing new ideas and finding better and more efficient ways to help SEs deliver better outcomes for our customers
  • Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels, balancing multi-quarter planning with day to day team execution and priorities
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and navigate complex joint selling motions, particularly with partners and channel organizations
More about this role

As a Director, Enterprise Sales Engineering, you will lead a team of frontline leaders, driving account strategy, deal execution, operational excellence, and team development across your region.

This is a strategic leadership role with regional impact within North America. You will act as a force multiplier by owning team and region performance, shaping execution standards, and partnering closely with Sales leadership to influence go to market strategy, improve outcomes, and scale impact beyond individual deals.

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.

  • Own in-field execution at a regional level by taking an executive presence role in strategic and high-impact opportunities and providing senior-level stakeholder alignment and technical credibility alongside your team.
  • Develop and operationalize a repeatable formula and methodology that can scale across a large customer base, enabling Datadog to accelerate enterprise growth by illustrating to customers how Datadog’s...

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