# Strategic Account Executive

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: Texas, USA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $124,000-$165,000 USD
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Strategic Account Executive at Datadog, you will target and close new business with the company's largest, most strategic customers and prospects.

You will focus on uncovering the pain points organizations face as they operate in or migrate to a cloud environment at scale, and deliver the appropriate Datadog solution.

Responsibilities:

- Prospect into large Fortune 1000 companies while running an efficient sales process

- 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

- 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

Requirements:

- 5+ years of closing experience, with a mix of field selling within mid-market and enterprise

- Driven and have met/exceeded direct sales goals of $1M+

- Average deal size of $100k+

- Experienced in working for an innovative tech company (SaaS, IT infrastructure, or similar)

- Experienced in selling into large Fortune 1000 companies with the ability to win new logos

Benefits and Growth:

- High income earning opportunities based on self-performance

- New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

- Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message

- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

- An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join Community Guilds

- Generous and competitive medical benefits package

- Retirement savings match

- Pet adoption and insurance program

## Skills

### Required
- SaaS
- IT infrastructure
- sales
- relationship building
- negotiation

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