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Sales Specialist – Manufacturing

Location

Texas

Posted

11 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Sales Specialist – Manufacturing

Databricks

• Drive new Lakebase revenue by identifying, qualifying, and driving Lakebase activations and consumption within a defined territory, in partnership with regional Account Executives and the broader account team. • Lead with outcomes for key Lakebase personas — including platform teams and developers, data teams, and central IT — articulating how Lakebase helps them ship features faster, simplify operational data architectures, and improve governance and cost efficiency. • Sell the value of fully-managed Postgres for intelligent applications, positioning Lakebase as the optimal choice for operational workloads that power real-time, AI-driven experiences. • Run complex, multi-threaded sales cycles from discovery and value hypothesis through commercial negotiation and close, navigating executive, technical, and line-of-business stakeholders. • Orchestrate proof-of-value and POCs that validate Lakebase’s benefits for OLTP-style workloads, reverse ETL, and AI/ML-driven applications, in partnership with solution architects and specialists. • Compete and win against legacy and cloud-native operational databases by leveraging our compete assets, benchmarks, and customer references. • Align to measurable business outcomes such as performance, developer productivity, time-to-market for new features, cost reduction, and simplification of the operational data landscape. • Partner cross-functionally with Product Management, Marketing, Customer Success, and Partner teams to shape territory plans, launch plays, and co-selling motions with key ISVs and GSIs. • Enable the field by sharing Lakebase best practices, success stories, and sales motions with broader sales teams, helping scale Lakebase proficiency across the organization. • Establish top strategic focus accounts by engaging application development teams to create net-new intelligent applications leveraging Lakebase. • Drive longer-term Postgres standardization and migration within Databricks' most strategic accounts.

Job Requirements

  • 7+ years of enterprise SaaS sales experience, consistently exceeding quota in complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
  • Proven success selling data platforms, operational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, cloud-native DBaaS), or adjacent data/AI infrastructure to technical buyers and business leaders.
  • Strong understanding of modern data and application architectures, including cloud-native services, microservices, event-driven systems, and how operational data underpins AI and analytics strategies.
  • Ability to sell to both technical stakeholders (developers, architects, data engineers) and business stakeholders (product leaders, operations, line-of-business owners).
  • Demonstrated experience leading specialist or overlay motions, working jointly with core Account Executives to create and progress opportunities.
  • Executive presence with the ability to whiteboard architectures, lead C-level conversations, and build trust with senior decision makers.
  • Strong value selling skills: adept at discovering pain, building a business case, and tying technical capabilities to clear, quantified outcomes.
  • Excellent communication, storytelling, and negotiation skills, with comfort presenting to both large and small audiences.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience selling Postgres, operational databases, OLTP workloads, or transactional cloud database services, ideally within large or strategic accounts.
  • Familiarity with data platforms, lakehouse architectures, and cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP), including how operational databases fit within broader data and AI strategies.
  • Understanding of reverse ETL, real-time decisioning, and operational analytics use cases, and how they drive value for customer-facing and internal applications.
  • Exposure to AI-native and agent-driven applications that depend on low-latency, highly scalable operational data services.
  • Prior experience in a high-growth, category-creating environment, helping shape new plays, messaging, and customer narratives.
  • Experience collaborating with partners and ISVs to drive joint pipeline and co-sell motions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks to meet employee needs

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