Key Accounts Executive at Datadog - Remote USA — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role is tagged #LI-Remote and Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace, meaning there is some location flexibility — but it comes with a significant caveat: regular travel to client sites is explicitly required, including car, train, and air travel across regions. This is not a fully async, location-independent position.
For digital nomads, this role presents a mixed picture:
- Base flexibility: You can likely work remotely when not traveling, but you must be US-based given the Fortune 100 US client focus and USD salary structure.
- Client travel requirement: Frequent domestic US travel is built into the role, making long-term international slow-travel or multi-month stays abroad impractical without negotiation.
- Timezone: Selling into large US enterprises means you'll be anchored to US business hours (ET/CT/PT), severely limiting flexibility for overseas stays.
On salary vs. cost of living: the $128k–$170k base (plus variable/OTE) is strong. In Lisbon, this would afford a very comfortable lifestyle at roughly 3–4x local cost. In Bangkok or Medellín, it would be exceptional — but the client-travel requirement makes sustained residence there unrealistic for this role.
Bottom line: Best suited to someone US-based who wants flexibility on non-travel days, not a true location-independent nomad lifestyle. Look for pure async SaaS sales roles if full nomad freedom is your goal.
Our Key Accounts Executive will target and close new business within the largest, most strategic prospects in key, high potential companies. In this role you'll be focused on understanding and uncovering the pain points these companies face as they operate in or migrate to a cloud environment at scale, as well as delivering the appropriate Datadog solution.
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'll Do:
- Develop and execute an outbound prospecting strategy tailored to specific Fortune 100 accounts
- Drive a strategic, multi-threaded sales motion spanning multiple stakeholders and product suites
- Cross-sell and navigate throughout complex accounts
- Create, own, and grow your own accounts, demonstrating the value of the Datadog platform
- Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business
- Work cross-functionally with marketing and solutions engineering to drive coordinated efforts that support the outbound prospecting strategy
- Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI
- Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution
- Have intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation
- Identify a robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities
- Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency
Who You Are:
- Someone with 5+ years of Enterprise Sales experience selling into Fortune 100 companies with the ability to win new logos
- Driven and have met/exceeded direct sales goals of $1M+ and operated with an average deal size of $100k+
- Able to demonstrate methodology to prospect and build pipeline on your own
- Experienced in working for an innovative tech company (SaaS, IT infrastructure, or similar preferred)
- Self-starter mindset and resourceful by nature
- Coachable and willing to adapt your sales motion as needed
- Role requires regular travel to client sites, within your area and other regions, using various modes of transportation (car, train, air), depending on business needs
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:
- New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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:
$128,000 — $170,000 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. 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.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog 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.
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