Vice President of Partnerships

Datadog is looking for a visionary Senior Leader of Sales Engineering (SE) to lead and scale a high-performing team of SE Directors in North America across Enterprise, Majors, and Public Sector accounts. This is a strategic leadership role with regional and global impact. You will define the Sales Engineering strategy for North America and act as a regional voice in global discussions with Product Management, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams—ensuring that customer needs in North America influence Datadog’s global direction.  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. What You Will Do Executive Leadership & Organizational Growth * Recruit, develop, and lead a team 3rd line SE Directors, fostering a culture of technical excellence, customer-centricity, and continuous growth. * Define and drive the technical sales strategy across North America, and globally. * Set the vision, priorities, and operating model for Sales Engineering, ensuring alignment with Datadog’s business objectives and local market dynamics. * Partner with Sales Leadership to align on revenue targets, go-to-market initiatives, and strategic customer engagement across the region. * Represent North America Sales Engineering globally, ensuring regional perspectives and requirements are reflected in Datadog’s product roadmap and GTM planning. Customer Partnership & Advocacy * Act as a trusted advisor to C-level and senior technical executives, demonstrating how Datadog solves critical observability, performance, and security challenges, especially given the rapid business adoption of AI. * Provide executive support for high-stakes opportunities, offering guidance throughout complex sales cycles. * Serve as an executive sponsor for strategic customers across North America. * Promote value-based technical selling, empowering teams to deliver impactful business outcomes. Cross-functional Collaboration & Global Influence * Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to align field execution and messaging. * Use customer and field insights to advocate for innovation and regional needs within Product and Engineering. * Influence Datadog’s product roadmap and go-to-market strategies through close collaboration with global stakeholders. Operational Excellence * Implement and scale pre-sales methodologies, tools, and KPIs to drive consistency and customer impact across North America. * Analyze team performance and regional trends to drive data-driven improvements. * Stay current on market trends, competitive landscape, customer pain points, and evolving partner ecosystems. Who You Are * 10+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or similar pre-sales leadership roles, with multiple years of SE leadership experience or second line leadership. * Proven expertise in enterprise SaaS, cloud, observability, AI, and security solutions, with a track record of driving technical sales success at scale. * Strong executive presence and ability to engage and influence C-level stakeholders in large, complex organizations. * Exceptional leadership, coaching, and team-building capabilities, with experience scaling high-impact teams. * Proven track record in building customer relationships and willing to get in the field and help with top down sale * Deep understanding of sales methodologies such as MEDDICC, Command of Message (CoM), or similar frameworks. * The general travel expectation is 25%, though during peak periods it may increase to 50% Datadog 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. Benefits and Growth :  * Best-in-breed onboarding * Generous global benefits * Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking * New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) * Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing * An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. #LI-Hybrid Datadog 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. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $238,000—$349,000 USD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Datadog:  Datadog 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. 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The Indianapolis Colts are seeking an experience Business Solutions Manager/Director to be responsible for the development, refinement and adoption of the sales processes, along with being a critical source of business intelligence for the Corporate Partnerships department. The position is the system owner of all department research, consumer analytics, inventory management, sales presentation materials, and internal/external reporting systems.  The position provides leadership during the brainstorming and development of sales concepts and platforms for key accounts, strategic business prospects and renewals. While having individual expertise in these areas, the position will also manage the development of integrated concepts by facilitating cross departmental brainstorming sessions with departments including marketing, content/production, community relations, ticketing, etc. The position will constantly be exploring, developing, assessing and creating new inventory concepts and sellable marketing programs.   This position reports to the Vice President of Corporate Partnerships and is an integral member of the Sales and Service team. This role is critical in developing, maintaining, and exploring systems and approaches as a centralized sales support role, rather than individual sales executives building out their own processes, programs and platforms. The successful candidate can navigate sales strategy, data and analytics, concept development and inventory controls, while displaying comprehension of the sponsorship industry, along with tactical and technical expertise in the sales process.   HIRING MANAGER Vice President of Corporate Partnerships   DIRECT REPORTS N/A   RESPONSIBILITIES * Manage systems and processes to support sales efforts, including the development of sales materials, strategies and concepts. * Manage analytic processes to increase organizational capability including, but not limited to, identifying and presenting consumer and brand insights, sponsorship industry insights, and NFL insights to enhance the sales process. * Provide expertise in matching Colts assets and opportunities with current clients and prospects business objectives. * Manage and maintain all available and sold inventory as part of on-going sales efforts and internal/external reporting. * Manage all third-party resources systems or sales tools that are owned by the Corporate Partnership department (Digideck, Trajektory, Wakefield Research, SponsorUnited, etc.). * Manage all league-specific reporting required for the Corporate Partnerships Department. * Collaborate with NFL contacts to ensure policy compliance. * Conduct consumer, category and/or prospect-specific research to aid in the sales process and help identify new opportunities. * Lead or participate in regular cross-department concept development, inventory reviews and performance reporting. * Collaborate with the Partnership Marketing team to ensure all programs, existing or new, can be efficiently and effectively fulfilled to meet internal and external expectations. * Work on additional projects as needed with a focus on those that require concept development or presentation material development. * Perform other duties as assigned   QUALIFICATIONS * College degree required.  Bachelor’s Degree in a Business/Marketing or related field. * Excellent organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks, establish priorities, and consistently meet deadlines. * Understands the need for data integrity and pays attention to maintaining accurate and timely data. * Excellent oral and written communication skills to develop strong working relationships with coworkers. * Demonstrated success in building compelling sales presentations and creative techniques. * Ability to operate under pressure. * Be extremely customer focused with both external and internal prospects and partners. * Strong work ethic and the ability to be aggressive, polished and poised. * Good working knowledge in using sports rights and assets (retail marketing, use of all forms of media, Business-to-Business concepts, etc.) to drive B2C and B2B business results. * Demonstrated proficiency in creating multi-media presentations.  Experience with Digideck is a plus. * Proficient in MS Word, Excel and Power Point. * Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator is a plus. * 4+ years of experience working in or adjacent to sales processes or teams. * Agency experience is a plus.  * Available to work extended hours including evenings, weekends and holidays. * Expected travel: 1-2 weeks per season.   Responsibilities and qualifications may change at any time with or without notice.   We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.