Datadog
Regional Director - Enterprise Sales
Tokyo, Japan. Posted a month ago
The role
The Director, Enterprise Sales will provide strategy, mentorship, and guidance for a team of Enterprise Sales Executives. This person will manage a team responsible for driving new business through the full sales cycle.
What you will do
- Manage, hire, train and ramp a team of Enterprise Sales Executives
- Achieve annual Enterprise bookings quota with monthly and quarterly targets
- Develop and manage Enterprise Sales Executives on productivity metrics
- Coach Sales Executives through building executive relationships and complex deals
- Shape the direction of the go-to market strategy and execution for the region
- Work collaboratively with Marketing, Product and Success
- Conduct weekly forecast meetings
- Support direct reports by participating and leading in client and prospect meetings
Required qualifications
- Experienced in managing a high performing Enterprise Sales team for a B2B technology company
- 5+ years of overall Enterprise sales experience working with Fortune 1000 companies
- Confident in managing complex sales processes with multiple stakeholders and negotiations
- Knowledgeable in selling to C-level executives in the IT space
- Experienced in setting quotas and managing people against those quotas
- Successful track record as an individual contributor
- Able to travel abroad up to 4 times a year for company events in the USA and APAC
- Regular travel to client sites using various modes of transportation
Nice to have
- Ideally based in Tokyo
Benefits
- High income earning opportunities based on self performance
- New hire stock equity (RSU)
- 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
- Inclusive company culture
- Opportunity to join Community Guilds
- Generous and competitive medical benefits package
- Retirement savings match
- Pet adoption and insurance program
About the company
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack. It is trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders.