Manager, Enterprise Sales Engineering
United Kingdom, Remote
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 the lead technical role in your region supporting customer facing activities and engagements for key accounts. Enable a strong partnership between the SE team and other organizations within Datadog.
What You’ll Do :
- Partner with the Sales Team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
- Manage a team of individual contributors, helping to ensure customer success pre-sale
- Assist recruiting efforts to find and hire top talent within your region. Mentor / coach new hires during on-boarding to ensure proper ramping of skills and capabilities
- 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 to ensure continuity between pre and post sales activities
- Deliver semi-annual performance reviews along with collaborating on and executing individual development plans
Who You Are :
Coachable, with a strong desire to improve and grow as a professional and a demonstrated ability to navigate through changeProven in your ability to grow and develop a teamExperienced in recruiting both individual contributors and front line leadersKnowledgeable in current infrastructure and monitoring solutions and technologiesAble to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer and mentor others on how to do soSomeone with strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires an ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering while also coaching others how to do soAble to think strategically and creatively about a wide variety of challengesDatadog 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.
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