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Datadog is seeking a Commercial Sales Engineer 2 to join its sales team in Sydney. In this hybrid role, you will partner with sales teams to articulate Datadog's value proposition and technical strategy to customers and prospects. You will deliver product and technical presentations, conduct product demonstrations, and support technical evaluations (POCs) to help qualify and close opportunities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partner with the sales team to communicate Datadog's overall value proposition, vision, and strategy to customers
- Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility with prospects
- Deliver product and technical presentations to potential clients
- Maintain direct communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests and customer feedback
- Help clients onboard the product and assist when they encounter technical roadblocks
- Think creatively about technical challenges during the pre-sales lifecycle
- Serve as a brand ambassador and escalate bug issues and customer concerns to appropriate teams
You will have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. The role involves travel to client sites (up to 25% of the time) and requires comfort with extended periods of sitting during travel.
Datadog values collaboration and operates as a hybrid workplace to support work-life harmony. The company offers best-in-breed onboarding, continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Knowledgeable and experienced with DevOps monitoring or architecture tools
- Comfortable and confident delivering technical presentations and demos to external customers or internal teams
- Ability to think creatively about a wide variety of technical challenges
- Previous experience in systems administration (Windows or Linux)
- Able to sit up to 4 hours traveling to and from client sites
- Able to travel via auto, train, or air up to 25% of the time
Datadog notes that not all candidates will meet every qualification on day one and encourages passionate technologists interested in growing their skills to apply.
