Regional Manager, Sales Engineering - UK

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

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 it asks for · 8

• Experienced with 1-3+ years in a Sales Engineering team lead or mentorship role and 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or other equivalent client facing role
• Coachable, with a strong desire to improve and grow as a professional and a demonstrated ability to navigate through change
• Proven in your ability to grow and develop a team
• Experienced in recruiting both individual contributors and front line leaders
• Knowledgeable in current infrastructure and monitoring solutions and technologies
• Able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer and mentor others on how to do so
• Someone 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 so
• Able to think strategically and creatively about a wide variety of challenges

What the job covers

• Partner with the Sales Team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers.
• Manage a team of leaders and 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

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• ensure5×
• technical5×
• customer4×
• skills4×
• value4×
• grow3×
• sales engineering3×
• activities2×
• along2×
• articulate2×
• build2×
• close2×
• develop2×
• evaluation2×
• experienced2×

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