[Remote] Key Accounts Executive
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack. The Key Accounts Executive will focus on targeting and closing new business within Fortune 100 companies, understanding their pain points, and delivering tailored Datadog solutions.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute an outbound prospecting strategy tailored to specific Fortune 100 accounts
- Drive a strategic, multi-threaded sales motion spanning multiple stakeholders and product suites
- Cross-sell and navigate throughout complex accounts
- Create, own, and grow your own accounts, demonstrating the value of the Datadog platform
- Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business
- Work cross-functionally with marketing, and solutions engineering to drive coordinated efforts that support the outbound prospecting strategy
- Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI
- Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution
- Have intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation
- Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities
- Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency
Skills
- 5+ years Enterprise Sales experience selling into Fortune 100 companies with the ability to win new logos
- Driven and have met/exceeded direct sales goals of 1M+ and operated with an average deal size of $100k+
- Able to demonstrate methodology to prospect and build pipeline on your own
- Experienced in working for an innovative tech company (SaaS, IT infrastructure or similar preferred)
- Self-starter mindset and resourceful by nature
- Coachable and willing to adapt your sales motion as needed
- 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
- Experienced in working for an innovative tech company (SaaS, IT infrastructure or similar preferred)
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
- A 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- A discounted employee stock purchase plan
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