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Key Accounts Executive

135k – 150kIllinoisMichiganMinnesotaOhioHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

Targets and closes new business with Fortune 100 companies facing cloud migration challenges, selling Datadog solutions. Requires 5+ years enterprise sales experience, proven quota attainment, and self-starting prospecting skills.

About the role

What You’ll Do:

  • Develop and execute an outbound prospecting strategy tailored to specific Fortune 100 accounts
  • Drive a strategic, multi-threaded sales motion spanning multiple stakeholders and product suites
  • Cross-sell and navigate throughout complex accounts
  • Create, own, and grow your own accounts, demonstrating the value of the Datadog platform
  • Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business
  • Work cross-functionally with marketing, and solutions engineering to drive coordinated efforts that support the outbound prospecting strategy
  • Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI
  • 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 Enterprise Sales experience selling into Fortune 100 companies with the ability to win new logos
  • 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)
  • Self-starter mindset and resourceful by nature
  • Coachable and willing to adapt your sales motion as needed
  • 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:

  • New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
  • Generous and competitive benefits package
  • Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
Skills
SaaSEnterprise SalesFortune 100Outbound ProspectingPipeline BuildingDatadogCloudSales ForecastingNegotiationCross-selling
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