Commercial Customer Success Manager - job 1 of 2

About Datadog: 

Datadog is a best-in-class SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth, profitability, and stock market appreciation. Built by engineers, for engineers, our monitoring and security platform is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stack. We’re dedicated to creating, developing, and supporting our product and customers, allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally. Come join the team for an exciting opportunity to learn from top-level leaders and colleagues and grow alongside the company as we rapidly expand. 

The Team:

Our Customer Success team works with a best-of-breed product that solves real problems for our customers. A relationship-management team, first and foremost, with a heavy sales focus due to a lot of products to sell and for our customers to get to use. Interactions are rooted in the relationship, but we always have to be listening for opportunities and have a growth mindset. Customer Success Managers follow a well-defined methodology that helps them identify the customer's unique needs and clearly convey the value of the Datadog product. Whether you're looking to learn from the best or be the best, the Datadog Customer Success team is dedicated to furthering personal development and team success.

The Opportunity:

Over the last six years our product has exploded in the market with ongoing 70% year over year revenue growth. Today, thousands of customers love and trust Datadog. We’re scaling our Customer Success team to proactively drive new product attachment and effective strong relationships across our existing customer base through on-boarding, up-selling and cross selling. You’ll advocate for the customer internally and focus on a positive customer experience. Check out some of our customer stories here.

You Will: 

• Partner with sales team to ensure smooth transition and on-boarding experience
• Proactively build relationships with customers to achieve loyalty 
• Run the full sales cycle for any opportunity in existing customer accounts
• Identify growth opportunities and bring them to successful close
• Act as advisor to customers to ensure they’re leveraging the solution effectively
• Monitor and identify usage trends to uncover renewal risks and support greater adoption rates
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal Datadog teams (support, product, finance, and legal)

You Are:

• Customer-minded, always trying to provide the most value possible
• Passionate about building long term and lasting relationships
• A 'closer', confident to negotiate upsell and renewals
• Excited by working in an ever-evolving and fluid solution focused environment
• Driven by the ability to make a visible impact with your work
• A strong communicator with excellent attention to detail
• Experienced in independently negotiating contract terms and overcoming pricing objections for up-sell/cross sell activities

Bonus Points:

• Have prior Customer Success and/or Sales experience
• Have experience dealing with DevOps stakeholders in the past
• Bold on the phones, and creative in your emails
• Experienced in the SaaS/cloud industry
• Familiar with Salesforce, Tableau and other industry specific programs

Why You Should Apply:

• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities 
• Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Best in breed onboarding
• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Generous and competitive benefits
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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