# Strategic Account Executive

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/datadog/jobs/7439145?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Our Strategic Account Executives target and close new business with Datadog's largest, most strategic customers and prospects in Singapore & Philippines.

In this role you'll be focused on uncovering the pain points organisations 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.

**What You'll Do:**

- 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 favourable 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

**Who You Are:**

- Someone with 5+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or enterprise)

- 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)

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

- 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

**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 our Community Guilds

- Generous and competitive medical benefits package

- Retirement savings match

- Pet adoption and insurance program

## Skills

### Required
- Fortune 1000 companies
- cloud environment
- sales process
- relationship building
- business negotiation

### Nice to have
- SaaS
- IT infrastructure
- enterprise sales

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