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Field CTO (Japan)

DatadogTokyo, Japan
Hybrid Full-time

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Experience Level

Senior

Qualifications

Industry Experience: Over 15 years of extensive experience in enterprise architecture or large-scale application architecture. Strategic Thinking: Strong capabilities in addressing complex technical and business challenges. Stakeholder Engagement: Proven experience managing and influencing C-level executives. Technical Proficiency: Hands-on expertise in technology applications.

About the job

At Datadog, we are the internal product experts driving our global growth. The Technical Solutions (TS) team plays a pivotal role in educating potential clients and ensuring the satisfaction and success of our existing customers.

As the Field CTO, you will serve as a technical multiplier within the larger Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) organization. You will bridge the gap between our clients' visions and objectives and our technological roadmap, fostering long-term, trust-based relationships that propel digital transformation for our clients, leading to sustained growth for both parties.

At Datadog, we value relationships, collaboration, and creativity as core elements of our office culture. We operate as a hybrid workplace, allowing our employees to achieve their ideal work-life harmony.

This position reports to the Head of Product Solutions Architecture. You will closely collaborate with various teams within Technical Solutions (including Product Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, Technical Post Sales, and Support Engineering) and work alongside internal departments such as Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Go-To-Market Strategy, Finance, and People & Recruiting.

We place immense value on our office culture, where relationships and collaboration lead to creativity. Our hybrid work model enables each Datadog employee to achieve their best work-life balance.

Key Responsibilities:

  • C-Level Engagement: Serve as a strategic advisor to executives at the CIO, CTO, CEO, and CISO levels, assisting in the adoption of observability processes, investment decisions, and operational streamlining.
  • Go-To-Market Strategy: Identify industry-specific trends and their impacts and possibilities through customer engagement, contributing to top-of-funnel creation for Product, GTM, BVA, and Architecture teams. Collaborate with Product SA and Product Management to co-create industry-focused solutions.
  • Leadership: Embody the value of the Datadog platform, showcasing thought leadership in observability and security. Highlight our commitment to delivering advanced solutions, industry best practices, and superior visibility and management in large-scale environments.
  • Advisory Role: Become a trusted advisor to Sales leaders and executive customers on ROI, value realization, and whitespace analysis, supporting individual client project strategies and implementation plans within your industry expertise.
  • Collaboration: Work with Product Solutions Architecture (PSA), Sales, Sales Engineering, and Marketing to deliver high-quality technical resources to a diverse audience, including practitioners and economic decision-makers.
  • Presentations: Lead engagements on architecture and design to demonstrate how Datadog addresses the needs of strategic customers. Participate in executive briefings at Datadog's Executive Briefing Center (EBC) with prominent clients and prospects, discussing overall architecture, observability best practices, and industry trends.
  • Hiring Support: Assist in the recruitment of top talent for the Product Solutions Architecture and Field CTO teams.

Qualifications:

  • Industry Experience: Over 15 years of extensive experience in enterprise architecture or large-scale application architecture, with the ability to design and apply architecture based on real-world use cases. Deep knowledge of observability, cloud, and technological transformation in the Japanese market.
  • Strategic Thinker: Ability to think long-term and creatively about diverse technical and business challenges.
  • Stakeholder Management: Experience interacting with and influencing key stakeholders at the VP level and above within large enterprise organizations.
  • Technologist: A hands-on technical expert who has earned trust across all levels of the organization.

About Datadog

Datadog is a leading observability platform that empowers organizations to monitor their applications, infrastructure, and logs across dynamic cloud environments. We prioritize a collaborative, creative work culture, enabling our employees to thrive in a hybrid model that fosters both professional growth and work-life balance.

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