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Director, Enterprise Sales Engineering - US Central

Datadog
Posted a month ago

LOCATION

Illinois · Remote

EXPERIENCE

10+ Years

SALARY

$180K - $240K /year

SKILLS REQUIRED

Go-to-Market PlanningTechnical SolutioningEnterprise Deal ExecutionSales Engineering Leadership

Job description

Overview

Director, Enterprise Sales Engineering leads a team of Sales Engineering leaders and drives regional account strategy and deal execution across North America.

What you'll do

  • Lead in-field execution for strategic, high-impact enterprise opportunities.
  • Develop and operationalize repeatable sales engineering methodology for large customer bases.
  • Partner with Sales leadership on regional strategy, multi-quarter planning, capacity planning, and forecast alignment.
  • Oversee high-quality delivery across technical sales cycles, including evaluations and deal progression.
  • Lead, coach, and develop Sales Engineering leaders, including hiring, onboarding, and structured enablement.
  • Manage regional operations such as resource allocation, KPI tracking, productivity, and skills development.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Marketing, Enablement, and Support to align GTM execution.

What you'll need

  • 5+ years of experience leading frontline SE leaders in a customer-facing technical organization.
  • 10+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a technical customer-facing role.
  • Proven success leading solution engineering teams with senior stakeholders across Product, SRE, DevOps, and Engineering.
  • Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels, balancing multi-quarter planning with day-to-day execution.
  • Background in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, APM/tracing, security, developer experience, observability, or adjacent SaaS technology.
  • Deep understanding of sales methodologies such as MEDDICC and Command of Message (CoM) or similar frameworks.
  • Willingness to travel as needed to support customer engagements or internal meetings.

Details

  • Work region: US Central within North America.

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Director, Enterprise Sales Engineering - US Central