Senior Sales Engineer - Italy

<p>As a Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and Sales. You’ll lead complex technical evaluations, align solutions to business outcomes, and help shape deal strategy in high-impact opportunities.</p> <p>This role goes beyond delivering demos - you’ll own the evaluation experience end-to-end, influence key stakeholders, and help drive successful outcomes across enterprise accounts.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won</li> <li>Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions and measurable business outcomes </li> <li>Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives </li> <li>Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process</li> <li>Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influence throughout the deal cycle </li> <li>Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams</li> <li>Drive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documented and up to date in related systems </li> <li>Identify and proactively resolve technical and organizational blockers by collaborating across Product, Support, and GTM teams before customers are impacted</li> <li>Contribute to team enablement by mentoring peers, sharing best practices, and creating reusable assets that scale knowledge across the region</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are: </strong></p> <ul> <li>7+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a technical customer-facing role within an enterprise environment</li> <li>Skilled at influencing and adapting communication across technical, business, and executive audiences </li> <li>Advanced background in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, APM/tracing, security, developer experience, observability</li> <li>Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain tech