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You'll help agencies connect mission priorities, modernization programs, and operational risks to technical solutions. You'll lead complex evaluations in regulated environments and shape the technical strategy for opportunities across hybrid, on-premises, and public cloud environments.\nYou'll own the technical evaluation experience from discovery through decision. You'll influence agency stakeholders and coordinate with systems integrators, resellers, and technology partners. You'll help customers and account teams address security, compliance, acquisition, and deployment requirements while setting accurate expectations about capabilities, prerequisites, and solution design.\nAt 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.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nOwn the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won\nLead discovery throughout the sales cycle to uncover technical challenges, mission and business goals, decision criteria, and success measures, then shape solution strategy and measurable business outcomes within applicable security, compliance, acquisition, and deployment requirements\nDeliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives\nOwn the technical strategy and response quality for RFIs, RFPs, proposal responses, and architecture reviews. Coordinate internal teams and partners to keep claims, dependencies, and deployment assumptions accurate and appropriately scoped\nFull ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, aligning agency and partner stakeholders, building a project plan with clear timelines and decision points, surfacing risks and dependencies, and holding all participants accountable to the process\nIdentify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influence throughout the deal cycle \nContribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams\nDrive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documented and up to date in related systems \nIdentify and proactively resolve technical and organizational blockers by collaborating across Product, Support, and GTM teams before customers are impacted\nContribute to team enablement by mentoring peers, sharing best practices, and creating reusable assets that scale knowledge across the region\nWho You Are: \n7+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a technical customer-facing role within an enterprise environment\nExperience leading complex federal sales cycles and technical evaluations involving agency stakeholders, systems integrators, resellers, and technology partners\nSkilled at influencing and adapting communication across technical, business, and executive audiences \nAdvanced background in hybrid environments and public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, APM/tracing, security, developer experience, and observability\nStrong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to a range of audiences\nA consultative, outcome-oriented approach to problem-solving and customer engagement\nDemonstrated ability to manage multiple opportunities and priorities in a fast-paced environment\nExperience mentoring peers or contributing to team enablement initiatives\nDemonstrated capability of utilizing AI tooling and scaling it \nGrowth mindset of embracing change and being curious \nWillingness to travel as needed to support customer engagements\nDatadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.\n Benefits and Growth: \nBest-in-breed onboarding\nGenerous global benefits\nIntra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking\nNew hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)\nContinuous professional development, product training, and career pathing\nAn inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks \nBenefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.\nDatadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.\nThe reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:\n$149,000—$198,000 USD\nAbout Datadog: \nDatadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.\nEqual Opportunity at Datadog:\nDatadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference. \nDatadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications. \nPrivacy and AI Guidelines:\nAny information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. 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