Strategic Account Executive - Paris

Paris, FranceHybrid

$100,000

Responsibilities

Maintain, build and own specific relationship maps for your territory including existing relationships and aspirational contacts
Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business
Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI
Handle existing customer expectations while expanding reach and depth into assigned territory
Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution
Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities
Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency Who You Are:

Have intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation
Experienced in selling into large Fortune 1000 companies with the ability to win new logos
Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
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.
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Driven and have met/exceeded direct sales goals of 1M+ and operated with an average deal size of $100k+
New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Generous and competitive medical benefits package
Retirement savings match
Pet adoption and insurance program

Our Strategic Account Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects.
In this role you’ll be focused on uncovering the pain points organizations face as they operate in or migrate to a cloud environment at scale as well as delivering the appropriate Datadog solution.
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:
Prospect into large Fortune 1000 companies while running an efficient sales process
experience (mix of field selling within mid-market and enterprise)
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)
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