Regional Manager – Sales Engineering

Datadog

Regional Manager leading a Sales Engineering team to enhance customer success at Datadog in the EMEA region. Focused on driving technical expertise and collaboration in sales processes.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing and developing a Sales Engineering team, with a focus on customer success and effective communication of Datadog's value proposition. Proficient in recruiting talent and mentoring individuals to enhance their skills and capabilities.

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Sales Engineering Team LeadershipCustomer Success ManagementTalent Recruitment and MentorshipTechnical Communication SkillsStrategic Thinking

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Hard Skills

Sales EngineeringInfrastructure SolutionsMonitoring TechnologiesEvaluation Plan DevelopmentClient Facing Experience

Soft Skills

CoachableStrong Desire to ImproveAbility to Navigate ChangeWritten CommunicationOral Communication

Industry Keywords

Datadog Value PropositionPre-Sale ActivitiesPost-Sale ActivitiesPerformance ReviewsIndividual Development Plans

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with the Sales Team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers.
Manage a team of leaders and individual contributors, helping to ensure customer success pre-sale;
Assist recruiting efforts to find and hire top talent within your region. Mentor/coach new hires during on-boarding to ensure proper ramping of skills and capabilities
Ensure that your team is enabled to support all required Datadog solutions along with key technical and soft skills
Develop a close working relationship with Product Management, Support, and Enablement to ensure continuity between pre and post sales activities
Deliver semi-annual performance reviews along with collaborating on and executing individual development plans

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experienced with 1-3+ years in a Sales Engineering team lead or mentorship role and 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or other equivalent client facing role
Coachable, with a strong desire to improve and grow as a professional and a demonstrated ability to navigate through change
Proven in your ability to grow and develop a team
Experienced in recruiting both individual contributors and front line leaders
Knowledgeable in current infrastructure and monitoring solutions and technologies
Able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer and mentor others on how to do so
Someone with strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires an ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering while also coaching others how to do so
Able to think strategically and creatively about a wide variety of challenges

Benefits

Comp & perks

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