Field CISO

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We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions (TS) team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. The Field CISOs are part of the larger Product Solutions Architecture (PSAs) organization and act as technical multipliers who build lasting, trusted relationships, bridging the gap between customer aspirations and our technology roadmap, enabling digital transformation and ensuring sustained growth for both our customers and our organization. Datadog is growing the Technical Solutions (TS) organization by seeking a customer-focused, industry specialized, and results-oriented Field CISO to join our high-growth organization and oversee our GTM technical strategy for the North America region with primary focus on Information Security.

Reports to the Head of Product Solutions Architecture. Partners closely with all Technical Solutions teams (Product Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, Technical Post Sales, Support Engineering) and other internal teams such as Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Global Information Security, Customer Success, Go-To-Market Strategy, Finance, People & Recruiting, and more.

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:

1. Leadership: Demonstrate Datadog's platform as well as thought leadership in modern Security and Observability, emphasizing our advanced security solutions, industry best practices, and dedication to providing organizations with superior security posture and management of their at scale environments.
2. Advisory: Be a trusted advisor to Sales leaders as well as customer and prospect CISOs and security executives on security ROI, value realization, and vulnerability analysis. Assist with security opportunity and adoption strategy for individual customers within their vertical of expertise.
3. GTM: Identify industry-specific security threats and trends and their impact during Customer engagements, feeding the top-of-funnel for Product, GTM, BVA, and Architecture teams. Co-create industry security solutions via collaboration with Product SAs and Product Management.
4. C-Level: Strategically guide CISO/CIO/CTO/CEO-level customer and prospect executives in rationalizing their security adoption journey, investment, and operationalizing of security and observability.
5. Collaboration: Collaborate with Product Solutions Architecture (PSA), Sales, Sales Engineering, and Marketing in providing high-quality security-focused technical resources to a broad audience of practitioners and economic buyers.
6. Presentations: Lead security architecture and design engagements to demonstrate how Datadog meets the security needs of strategic customers. Participate in Executive Brief conversations in Datadog’s Executive Briefing Center (EBC) with high-profile customers and prospects about overall security architecture, Security Best Practices, and industry security trends.
7. Hiring: Assist leadership in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO/CISO teams with a focus on security expertise.

Who You Are:

1. Industry Experience: Strong experience of at least 15+ years with Enterprise Security architecture at scale and ability to map modern security-centric architectures to real-world use cases, coupled with deep knowledge of the security and observability space, cloud and application security, as well as technological shifts in the information security space.
2. Strategic Thinker: Able to think long-term and creatively about a wide variety of security and business challenges.
3. Stakeholder Management: Experienced in interacting and influencing key security stakeholders (VP+ and CISO/CIO/CTO level) in large Enterprise organizations.
4. Technologist: Hands-on technologist with a strong security background who gains credibility and establishes strong relationships at all levels of the organization.
5. Presenter: Excellent customer-facing presentation skills for large audiences, comfortable discussing complex security details as well as with briefing executives or non-technical personas on security topics.
6. Communicator: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to link security product functionality to business objectives, security value realization, and ROI.
7. Travel: Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 50% of the time
8. Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, Master’s degree preferred

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:

• 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$280,000—$380,000 USD

About Datadog:

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. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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