• Market and business development for the Europe region • Identification, evaluation and development of new market segments in glass beads (microbeads) for demanding applications • Analysis of market trends, technologies and competitive landscapes in Paints & Coatings, Plastics, Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing, and Building & Construction • Development of go-to-market strategies and support for product launches • Build a robust sales funnel and increase market presence • Acquire new industrial customers and manage and grow existing key accounts • Advise customers on product benefits, specifications, material selection and application engineering • Deliver technical presentations, training and product demonstrations • Support customers in qualification and testing processes • Develop customer-specific solutions in collaboration with R&D, application engineering and production • Coordinate internal resources, ensuring feasibility, quality and timelines • Prepare proposals, pricing strategies and profitability calculations • Manage projects from initial contact through to serial production release • Collaborate with universities, testing institutes, OEMs and industry partners • Initiate joint development projects (e.g. functionalized glass beads, new filler applications, surface modifications) • Responsible for revenue growth, margins and achieving strategic targets within the area of responsibility • Develop annual business plans and forecasts • Build and manage international sales partners and distributor networks

• Design, develop, and manage enterprise-level database systems • Lead lifecycle management: schema design, migrations, replication, partitioning, upgrades, and DR planning • Architect, administer, and optimize high-availability PostgreSQL clusters • Automate processes to improve availability and scalability • Collaborate cross-functionally with application, SRE, and data engineering teams • Support large-scale database instances • Participate in rotational on-call and maintenance support • Perform regular upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation • Support database scalability and future growth initiatives • Define and enforce best practices around query optimization

• Design and implement client-facing and internal APIs • Orchestrate data flows between backend systems • Create and manage database schemas • Build automated test suites • Lead the design and implementation of substantial product features end-to-end • Evaluate and integrate with third-party services and tools • Help to mentor mid-level and junior engineers on your team

• Analyze and optimize storage strategies for ML experiment data and metadata. • Design and implement intelligent retention and expiration for large-scale datasets. • Modernize and refactor ETL/ELT pipelines to improve scalability and ease of maintenance. • Create and populate additional schemas for validated and curated datasets. • Build or enhance database-backed applications supporting ML R&D and production analytics. • Collaborate with ML engineers, SREs, and platform teams. • Provide knowledge transfer for long-term maintainers.