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Principal GSI Partner Manager – Accenture (EMEA)
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- Business Development
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- 14 Nov 2026
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The role, at a glance.
Datadog seeks a senior partner sales leader to grow its strategic Global Systems Integrator relationship with Accenture across EMEA. The role owns recruitment, enablement, joint selling, business reviews, and partner-sourced pipeline and revenue. It requires more than 10 years of quota-carrying SaaS, channel, alliances, or business-development experience, plus the ability to discuss cloud architecture and technical concepts. This is a hybrid UK-remote role with substantial travel expectations of 40–50%. Success depends on independently building executive relationships and aligning partner, sales, marketing, and technical teams around joint go-to-market plans.
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I would begin by mapping the partner's leadership, industry practices, service offerings, and priority accounts against our ideal customer profile. I would then establish an executive-sponsored joint business plan with clear enablement, solution, pipeline, and revenue milestones, reviewing progress regularly and adjusting investment based on measurable outcomes.
I would identify the highest-value regional industries, account overlaps, and cloud transformation use cases where Datadog and Accenture have a differentiated combined story. The plan would define target accounts, seller and architect enablement, packaged offerings, demand-generation activities, opportunity ownership, and quarterly KPIs for influenced pipeline and closed revenue.
I use a fact-based business review to isolate whether the gap is in executive sponsorship, field enablement, account mapping, solution readiness, or seller incentives. I align on a short recovery plan with named owners, weekly leading indicators, and a clear decision point on whether to increase, change, or reduce investment.
I translate the technology into the business outcome first, such as reducing incident impact, improving developer productivity, or accelerating cloud migration. I then use a simple customer scenario and connect the platform capabilities to the partner's consulting services, delivery model, and revenue opportunity.
I would track partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline, bookings, win rates, deal velocity, active sellers and practitioners, certifications, joint account plans, executive engagement, and campaign conversion. Leading indicators such as trained teams and qualified opportunities help identify risks before they affect revenue results.
About this role.
We are looking for an experienced Partner Sales Manager to ignite partnerships by identifying and recruiting new partners for long-term success and nurture ongoing relationships with key strategic Global Systems Integrator partners. Our ultimate goal is building channels and alliances that drive new customer adoption and revenue. This is a great opportunity for you to join a high-growth cloud software company and help blaze the path for our company’s expansion.
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:
- Identify and recruit new strategic Global SI partners to drive revenue growth
- Enable and activate existing GSI partners through training, planning and joint selling activities
- Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches
- Host regular business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics
- Work hand-in-hand with Datadog’s regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations
- Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue
Who You Are:
- 10+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying experience in business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization
- Proven experience in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships
- Understanding of, and exposure to working with, the leading Global and regional SIs
- Ability to quickly understand technical concepts and architectural scenarios, and explain them to others verbally and in writing
- Willingness to travel 40-50% of the time
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for taking initiatives from ideation to impact
- Passion for fast-paced, sometimes unpredictable growth culture and environment
- Background in SaaS and / or consumption based software platforms
- Experience in identifying market opportunities with a track record of initiating go-to-market plans and sales follow-through
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:
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for taking initiatives from ideation to impact
- Passion for fast-paced, sometimes unpredictable growth culture and environment
- Experience in identifying market opportunities with a track record of initiating go-to-market plans and sales follow-through
- Background in SaaS and / or consumption based software platforms
- Experience with systems management or monitoring
- Experience with partnerships supporting Containers and/or DevOps, particularly in a cloud environment
- Technical background/education
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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