Regional Manager, Sales Engineering - UK

ABOUT THE ROLE Datadog is seeking a Regional Manager, Sales Engineering to lead a high-growth organization and world-class pre-sales team. This is a hands-on management role where you will take the lead technical role in your region supporting customer-facing activities and engagements for key accounts. You will enable a strong partnership between the SE team and other organizations within Datadog. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Regional Manager, Sales Engineering, you will partner with the Sales Team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision, and strategy to customers. You will manage a team of leaders and individual contributors, helping to ensure customer success pre-sale. Your responsibilities will include: - Assisting recruiting efforts to find and hire top talent within your region and mentoring new hires during on-boarding to ensure proper ramping of skills and capabilities - Ensuring that your team is enabled to support all required Datadog solutions along with key technical and soft skills - Developing a close working relationship with Product Management, Support, and Enablement to ensure continuity between pre and post-sales activities - Delivering semi-annual performance reviews and collaborating on and executing individual development plans WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - 1-3+ years of experience in a Sales Engineering team lead or mentorship role and 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or other equivalent client-facing role - A strong desire to improve and grow as a professional and a demonstrated ability to navigate through change - Proven ability to grow and develop a team - Experience in recruiting both individual contributors and front-line leaders - Knowledgeable in current infrastructure and monitoring solutions and technologies - Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering - Ability to think strategically and creatively about a wide variety of challenges WHY REMOTE Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace to ensure our team members can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. This role will be performed remotely. BENEFITS Datadog offers a range of benefits, including: - 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