Enterprise Customer Success Manager - Chicago

What You’ll Do

• Act as a strategic partner to customers, orchestrating cross-functional internal teams and engaging executive, technical, and business stakeholders to understand customer goals and translate them into a clear, deliverable Datadog value narrative.
• Proactively build and maintain executive relationships to deliver clear, outcome-driven value stories that connect Datadog technical use cases to measurable business results.
• Lead QBRs and strategic reviews as a forum to demonstrate impact, align on priorities, and define next-step initiatives.
• Analyze adoption and usage trends to quantify value delivered, extract insights from large datasets, identify gaps, and drive financially grounded commercial recommendations and strategic opportunities.
• Position Datadog as a critical observability platform that enables reliability, efficiency, and informed decision-making.
• Own and project manage the on-boarding process for new customers.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with AEs, SEs, TAM, Product, Support, Enablement and other technical teams to ensure consistent value delivery and messaging.

Who You Are

• A customer-centric with 3+ years in a Customer Success or Account Management role.
• Knowledgeable in working with Fortune 1000 companies and global brands across all industries.
• A strong communicator with exceptional attention to detail and an ability to cater to a specific audience, including CTO, VP of Engineering and DevOps professionals.
• Experienced in the B2B tech space or with SaaS companies.
• Able to travel for customer onsite visits and events as required.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

About Datadog

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.

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
• Inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

About the Role

This is a hybrid role, offering flexibility in work arrangements. The position requires occasional travel for customer onsite visits and events.