Technical Trainer (Technical Solutions)

Paris, France


The Team

As part of Datadog’s GTM Enablement department, the Technical Solutions (TS) Enablement team helps share knowledge, provide ongoing education, create training materials, and maintain processes for our product experts. Our team supports a top-tier product that truly solves customer problems. We share technical and product expertise with the technical solutions team through demos, e-learning, live trainings, documentation, and ongoing support.

 

The Opportunity

Datadog continues to grow at a rapid rate and with this exciting growth, our onboarding and ongoing training is also quickly increasing in scale and complexity. This position is responsible for providing onboarding and ongoing enablement training/programs to our TS teams in our EMEA region. We are looking for a structured communicator with a knack for simplifying the complex to develop and deliver the training content, curriculum and programs that enable our technical solutions people to be successful in their jobs. This role plays an essential part in providing a high-energy, engaging and positive environment for our learners.

 

What You’ll Do:

  • Deliver live and virtual onboarding and training programs that equip our Technical Solutions teams with the essential knowledge and skills required to be successful in their role
     

  • Manage logistical aspects of training delivery including roster management, learner communications, classroom logistics and other on-site event support tasks
     

  • Become a technical expert in our products, go-to-market philosophy and industry
     

  • Work with subject matter experts to deliver interactive labs during live workshops
     

  • Ensure that training content is delivered effectively
     

  • Work closely with curriculum managers and program owners to take an active role in the quarterly audit of course content, deliver collected field feedback and ensure content stays relevant and effective.
     

  • Maintain regular reporting cadence of attendance, course completion and learner feedback.
     

  • Embed with Technical Solutions to empathize with the realities of troubleshooting and demonstrating Datadog products, but be willing to challenge assumptions to help the organization grow
     

  • Champion technical solutions / go-to-market enablement programs at Datadog 

 

Who You Are:

  • 3-5 years in learning and development, technical enablement, in a training, or teaching role working with technical concepts 

  • Fluency in English

  • Demonstrated history of coaching and mentoring colleagues around key role elements 

  • Experience presenting day-long or multi-day trainings to groups of 10+ learners

  • Project management experience delivering quality product on short timeframes

  • Experience developing dynamic and engaging trainings for various audiences

  • A self-starter, tech-savvy professional who can easily understand a company’s business requirements and explain Datadog’s value and technical details to C-level executives, a technical guru and everyone in between 

  • Outstanding verbal and written communicator: you make the complex simple

  • General knowledge of cloud technologies

Bonus Points:

  • Fluency in additional languages

  • Experience at a high growth Software-as-a-Service or technology company

  • Experienced with AWS, Azure or GCP

  • Knowledge of DevOps

  • Experience enabling support or sales engineers with a structured methodology


 

Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization. These capabilities are provided on a SaaS-based data analytics platform that enables DevOps and other teams to accelerate go-to-market efforts, ensure application uptime, and successfully complete digital transformation initiatives.


 

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

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

  • Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message

  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions

  • Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

  • Competitive global benefits

  • Giving programs

  • 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 (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.


Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. 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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Requisition ID: R8843