Manager, Sales Engineer (Customer Success)

at  DataDog

Datadog is seeking a Manager, Sales Engineering (Customer Success) to join our high-growth organization and world-class pre-sales team. You will manage a team of talented Sales Engineers to help qualify and close opportunities and coach the team on their approach to providing technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). This is a hands-on management role where you will take an active technical role in your region supporting customer facing activities and engagements for key accounts. You will also enable and nurture strong partnership between the SE team and other organizations within Datadog.
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.

• Partner with the Customer Success Team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers.
• Manage a team of individual contributors, working to expand usage of Datadog in customer accounts
• Manage resource allocation of your team and ensure their maximum productivity and engagement.
• 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 performance reviews along with collaborating on and executing individual development plans