We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions team (Datadog’s post-sales enablement function) enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. A Technical Enablement Manager (TEM) provides advisory services to our largest customers by providing targeted technical training over the comprehensive suite of products and features available at Datadog. TEMs plan and lead educational sessions to ensure customers know how to integrate Datadog into their IT Operations and how it translates to business value.
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:
- Lead Foundational Enablement Webinars on a wide range of topics independently ensuring consistency and clarity.
- Deliver Technical Enablement training by facilitating customized, high-engagement sessions tailored to customer-defined goals and topics, maintaining strong Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) scores within normal lead time..
- Identify, update, and iterate on Foundational Enablement content to keep pace with evolving customer needs and platform capabilities.
- Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and TEM leadership to scope and position enablement services that align with customer priorities and drive adoption.
- Mentor new hires, providing guidance on best practices in enablement delivery and customer engagement.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Technical Services teams to provide structured, actionable feedback that improves both product features and enablement offerings.
- Perform internal enablement for cross-functional technical teams (Engineering, Support, Customer Success, etc.).
- Own, deliver, and continuously improve a recurring in-person Foundation Enablement event (as assigned) ensuring consistent impact and long-term success.
- Contribute to at least two team Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) efforts annually to advance enablement operations and offerings.
- Stay informed on observability concepts, industry trends, and DevOps practices; contribute insights to enhance customer engagements. Lead at least one field workshop per year or serve as a teaching assistant across multiple topics.
Who You Are:
- A seasoned technical trainer or enablement professional with 5+ years of related experience in cloud-native or observability environments.
- Strong foundation in observability, monitoring, or cloud-native technologies, with the ability to quickly develop expertise in Datadog’s core areas (Infrastructure, Logs, APM) and continually expand into additional product areas over time.
- Strong knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hands-on experience with modern automation and development tooling (scripting, CI/CD, containerization, configuration management).
- Recognized for expert presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences - from technical practitioners to executives.
- Proven success in driving high CSAT scores across customer training engagements.
- Experienced in creating or updating enablement content to improve training quality and scalability.
- Able to demonstrate professional judgment in solving diverse problems and managing customer interactions.
- Mentor-minded, comfortable supporting the growth of peers and new hires.
- Successfully completed at least one industry-related certification (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, or other relevant areas).
- Hands-on experience with modern automation and development tooling, including scripting languages