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Strategic Account Executive (SLED)

135k – 150kIllinoisMichiganTexasHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

Strategic Account Executive selling Datadog's SaaS monitoring platform to State, Local, and Education organizations. Drives revenue through prospecting, relationship building, and closing large deals in assigned territory, requiring 5+ years sales experience.

About the role

What You’ll Do:

  • Prospect into large State, Local, and Education organizations 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 SLED 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 value drivers behind all opportunities
  • Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency

Who You Are:

  • Someone with 5+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within assigned SLED region)
  • Someone with 2-3+ years of SLED/Gov sales experience
  • 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 SLED organizations with the ability to win new logos
  • Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites
  • Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 70% of the time

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
SaaS SalesMEDDICSLED SalesGovernment SalesPipeline BuildingForecastingNegotiationROI SellingProspectingDatadog
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