Director, Key Accounts
Datadog — San Francisco, California, USA
Posted 2026-10-19
Our Director, Key Accounts provides strategy, mentorship, and guidance for a team of Key Account Executives who are responsible for driving new business through the full sales cycle. 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: Manage, hire, train and ramp a team of Key Account Executives responsible for new bookings from prospecting into a target list of key, high potential prospects Achieve annual Enterprise bookings quota with monthly and quarterly targets Develop and manage Key Account Executives productivity metrics such as deal size, win rate, and forecast accuracy as well as how to lead a customer through a proactive sales cycle Coach Key Account Executives through building executive relationships within a target list of key, high potential prospect accounts through complex Enterprise deals and negotiations Shape the direction of the go-to market strategy and execution for your region Work collaboratively with Marketing, Product and Success to build targeted m