Datadog is seeking a strategic, data-driven, and collaborative Area Vice President, Enterprise Security Sales to lead our Enterprise Security Sales organization and scale Datadog’s security business through a tightly integrated co-sell motion with Enterprise Account Executives.
This senior leader will own the Enterprise Security strategy, ensuring security resources are deployed effectively to influence pipeline creation, deal progression, and multi-product adoption across Datadog’s largest and most strategic enterprise accounts. This senior leader will be responsible for driving market expansion and establishing Datadog as a trusted strategic partner to CISOs and security leadership teams. The role sits at the intersection of GTM design, sales execution, cross-functional orchestration, and customer value creation—ideal for a leader passionate about scaling high-growth security businesses.
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:
- Recruit, build, manage, and develop a world-class team of Enterprise Security Directors and Enterprise Security Sales Specialists.
- Own Enterprise Security revenue contribution and influence targets, ensuring consistent attainment through effective co-selling with Enterprise AEs.
- Inform and evolve Datadog’s Enterprise Security overlay strategy, including coverage models, specialist-to-AE ratios, rules of engagement, and prioritization frameworks.
- Define and own the Enterprise Security pipeline generation strategy within a co-sell / overlay model, establishing clear rules of engagement for when and how Security Specialists are deployed to create, accelerate, and expand pipeline alongside Enterprise AEs.
- Define and execute segment-level growth strategies across enterprise customers, including net-new acquisition, platform expansion, and multi-product security adoption.
- Establish operating rigor across pipeline influence, forecast contribution, deal inspection, and account-level security strategies.
- Guide teams through complex, multi-stakeholder security sales cycles, including executive alignment with CISOs, SecOps, Risk, and IT leadership.
- Ensure Security Specialists are consistently engaged at the right stage of the sales cycle to maximize impact—from discovery and executive alignment through technical validation and close.
Who You Are:
- 10+ years of progressive enterprise sales leadership experience within security, cloud, or infrastructure SaaS, including experience in overlay or matrixed sales models.
- 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing distributed sales teams in complex, cross-functional GTM environments.
- Deep understanding of modern security domains, including SIEM, CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP, SAST, SCA, cloud risk, and runtime security.
- Proven ability to drive revenue impact through influence, orchestration, and co-selling, rather than direct account ownership.
- Demonstrated success improving sales performance metrics such as win rate, deal size, pipeline quality, and forecast accuracy.
- Strong command of value-based selling methodologies (e.g., MEDDIC, Command of the Message) and applying them in joint selling motions.
- Executive presence with the ability to influence internal stakeholders and engage credibly with CISO-level buyers.
- Hands-on, high EQ leader comfortable diving into deals, coaching leaders, and reinforcing operational rigor.
- Builder mindset with experience scaling teams, processes, and GTM systems in high-growth environments.
- Comfortable leading through ambiguity and evolving market dynamics, proactively experimenting to drive sustained growth.
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:
- Generous and competitive global and US benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Best-in-breed onboarding
- Internal mentor and buddy programs
- Friendly, inclusive, high-performance workplace culture
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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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.
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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Skills Required
- 10+ years of progressive enterprise sales leadership experience
- 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing distributed sales teams
- Deep understanding of modern security domains
- Proven ability to drive revenue through influence and orchestration
- Demonstrated success improving sales performance metrics
- Strong command of value-based selling methodologies
- Executive presence to influence stakeholders and CISO-level buyers
- Builder mindset with experience scaling teams and processes
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with company-provided mental-health access and support for gender-affirming care. Fitness reimbursements in eligible locations further bolster wellbeing.
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Parental & Family Support — Fully paid, gender-neutral parental leave and extensive family-forming benefits (adoption, fertility, preservation, surrogacy) are highlighted. Childcare subsidies and pet-related support where eligible add practical family assistance.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — New-hire RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan at a discount provide broad ownership opportunities. Feedback suggests these equity programs meaningfully complement cash compensation in many roles.
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Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.
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