At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive the adoption of Databricks, engaging with key stakeholders and closing strategic deals.
- Company: Join Databricks, a leader in Data and AI solutions, with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, relocation opportunities, and a chance to work on impactful projects.
- Other info: Dynamic role with potential relocation to Dubai and excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real difference by solving tough problems with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Proven sales experience in SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS with a focus on new business development.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: London (potential relocation to Dubai in 2027)
Do you want to help solve the world’s toughest problems with Data and AI? That’s what we do every day at Databricks. Reporting to the Middle East and Africa sales leadership team, you’ll partner with a team of accomplished Data, AI and industry specialists. Your mission is to drive the adoption of Databricks across a select group of organisations.
The impact you will have:
- Assess your accounts and develop a strategy to engage all buying centres, driving deals forward and shortening decision cycles.
- Use a solution-led approach to create meaningful value for new logo accounts.
- Identify and close quick wins while managing longer, complex sales cycles.
- Own a defined list of prospects and build strategies targeting all critical stakeholders.
- Support broader customer transformation goals through strategic partnerships, well-scoped services, training, and targeted Executive engagement.
- Build strong value throughout the sales process to guide successful negotiation.
- Orchestrate cross-functional teams to maximise impact across your ecosystem.
- Own the consumption narrative, using demand plans to surface high-value use cases in each account.
- Stay customer-centric by delivering both technical and business outcomes through the Databricks Intelligence Platform.
What we look for:
- Strong new business development background with a track record of closing and exceeding quota in consumption based business (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
- Experience navigating procurement frameworks and mechanisms.
- Background in Cloud software, open source technology, or the Data and AI space.
- Experience driving adoption of usage-based SaaS services and co-selling with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
- Ability to identify key use cases and buying centres to expand Databricks’ value within an organisation.
- Methods for co-developing business cases and securing C-level sponsorship.
- Experience building strong champions, collaborative teams and productive partnerships.
- Understanding of consumption-based land-and-expand sales models.
- Familiarity with robust sales methodologies (e.g., account planning, MEDDPICC, Value Selling) and accurate forecasting.
- Demonstrated contributions and a consistent track record of success.
- Based in London (potential relocation to Dubai in 2027) with availability for travel.
- Demonstrable experience working with integration partners.
Compliance: If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.
