
Mid Market Account Executive
Datadog · Posted Nov 5
Cloud-scale monitoring, observability, and security platform services
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About the role
Datadog is an observability and security platform providing unified visibility across applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. The Mid-Market Sales team targets net-new customers in organizations of 1,000 to 5,000 employees. This Account Executive role owns the full sales cycle, prospecting into CTOs, engineering/IT leaders, and technical end users to close net-new logos.
What you will do
- Focus entirely on net-new logo acquisition
- Manage the full sales cycle, including negotiations and on-site technical demonstrations
- Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities
- Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business
- Strategically prospect into Chief Technology Officers, Engineering/IT Leaders, and technical end users (SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps)
- Multi-thread into different departments of a complex organization
- Collaborate with Sales Development Representatives, Partners, & Marketing to drive top of funnel activity
- Apply modern sales strategy with real time signals and research using tools Sales Navigator & Demandbase
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Curious and motivated to understand emerging technologies and how they intersect with core business drivers.
- Experienced in hunting, strategically mapping and breaking into net new logos
- Strong Pipeline Generation skills, bold in front of customers and creative in your pursuits
- Based in Bangalore and willing to travel within India for client site meetings and the wider APJ region from time to time.
Benefits and support
- High income earning opportunities based on self performance
- Opportunity for Presidents Club
- New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Both Technical and Sales Methodology enablement
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
About Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. It integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, and cloud security to provide real-time observability for modern development and operations teams.
- Industry
- Cloud Monitoring
- Company size
- 8100+ employees
- Founded
- 2010
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $147M raised
- 2010-07-27Series A$6.2M
- 2012-02-28Series B$15M
- 2014-01-23Series C$31M
- 2015-01-28Series D$94.5M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
President
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
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