Strategic Account Executive

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Our Strategic Account Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll be focused on uncovering the pain points organizations face as they operate in or migrate to a cloud environment at scale as well as delivering the appropriate Datadog solution. What You’ll Do: • Prospect into large Enterprise companies while running an efficient sales process with a focus on new logos acquisition • 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 commercial 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 business drivers behind all opportunities • Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency Who You Are: • Someone with 5+ years closing experience (mix…