Lakebase Sales Specialist (Central)

Requirements and responsibilities

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The impact you will have

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.

What success looks like in this role

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.

What we look for

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.

Preferred qualifications

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.

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