Strategic Enterprise Representative, UK

As industries race to embrace AI, traditional database solutions fall short of rising demands for versatility, performance, and affordability. Couchbase is leading the way with Capella, the developer data platform for critical applications in our AI world. By uniting transactional, analytical, mobile, and AI workloads into a seamless, fully managed solution, Couchbase empowers developers and enterprises to build and scale applications with unmatched flexibility, performance, and cost-efficiency—from cloud to edge. Trusted by over 30% of the Fortune 100, Couchbase is unlocking innovation, accelerating AI transformation, and redefining customer experiences. Come join our mission.

As Strategic Enterprise Representative for the UK, you will be selling our award-winning NoSQL database to the Global 2000 directly. You will be part of an over-achieving sales team that has established Couchbase as a dominant player in the database world. You’ll be driving strategic enterprise opportunities, selling the value of our product and services offering.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and be responsible for the execution of their Franchise Plan.
• Align with pre-sales solution engineering, channel partner strategies to meet individual goals, as well as liaising with SDR teams & sales follow-up of marketing qualified leads.
• Create and deliver pipeline generation programs and activities in their territory that leverage buying and developer ecosystems, including events, digital, cloud partner, and our developer relations teams.
• Oversee all aspects of the sales process in their territory, pipeline generation, deal qualification, relationship management, closing and contract execution, post sales customer satisfaction.
• Maintain and update sales reporting tools sets for forecasting, lead generation and deal management.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of the Couchbase platform and demonstrate effective communication of our use cases to their territory prospects and customers in both Cloud SaaS and on-premise environments.
• Ability to lead their virtual team to execute their plans, document and communicate strategies to their management team and keep customer and forecasting systems up to date.
• Demonstrate ability and passion for customer satisfaction and new customer acquisition to grow their franchise and contribute to the growth of the UK Enterprise business in Couchbase.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 10 years of experience selling enterprise technology in a fast-paced and extremely competitive market, with a proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales quotas.
• Ability to evidence experience in closing 1 million USD deals.
• Sales experience in database technology or its ecosystem is a strong advantage.
• Versatile in selling through partner ecosystems within each country in the UK region.
• Experience in cloud providers marketplace is an additional advantage.
• Previous experience in selling professional services.
• Completion of MEDDIC or equivalent sales methodology training.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills with the ability to effectively communicate the value of the Couchbase platform to both customers and prospects.
• Experience in SaaS sales or a solid understanding of hyperscalers and as-a-service offerings.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and work effectively within a team.
• Self-motivated, independent, and high-performing individual with a quick learning ability.
• Proficiency in English, and within a reasonable travel distance from London is preferred.

Why Couchbase?

Modern customer experiences need a flexible cloud database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase’s mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers– all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications and build innovative new ones.

Couchbase offers a total rewards approach to benefits that recognizes the value you create here, so that you in turn may best serve yourself and your family. Some benefits include:

• Generous Time Off Program - Flexibility to care for you and your family.
• Wellness Benefits - A variety of world class medical plans to choose from, along with dental, vision, life insurance, and employee assistance programs.
• Financial Planning - RSU equity program, ESPP program, Retirement program and Business Travel Insurance.
• Fun Perks - An ergonomic and comfortable in-office / WFH setup. Food & Snacks for in-office employees. And much more!

Couchbase is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.