About the role
SLSQ427R663
CustomerLake Sales Specialist
United States
Multiple Locations
Databricks is hiring a CustomerLake Sales Specialist to help enterprises transform customer experiences for the agentic AI era. CustomerLake brings customer data, AI, and marketing together to power trusted customer profiles, audience activation, and personalized experiences.
As one of the first members of the CustomerLake specialist sales team, you will help build this business. You’ll partner with regional Account Executives to drive adoption across enterprise and strategic accounts, engaging CMOs and their organizations alongside data and technology leaders.
The impact you will have
- Grow the business: Build pipeline and drive CustomerLake revenue, adoption, and consumption alongside regional Account Executives.
- Win marketing buyers: Engage CMOs, CRM leaders, and marketing operations teams around retention, personalization, campaign performance, and customer lifetime value.
- Lead opportunities through close: Coordinate discovery, customer evaluations, business cases, and negotiations with marketing and technical stakeholders.
- Shape the sales approach: Turn early wins and customer feedback into repeatable sales plays, stronger messaging, and product insights.
- Enable the broader field: Equip account teams and partners to identify CustomerLake opportunities and communicate its value.
What we look for
- 7+ years of enterprise SaaS sales experience, with consistent quota achievement and success closing complex deals.
- Proven marketing technology sales experience, including selling directly to CMOs and across their organizations—particularly VPs of CRM, marketing operations, and customer engagement leaders.
- Marketing and customer data fluency: Understanding of customer profiles, segmentation, activation, personalization, and how marketing teams evaluate investments.
- Value-based selling: Ability to build quantified business cases and align marketing buyers with data, IT, security, and procurement teams.
- Collaborative execution: Experience developing and winning opportunities alongside core Account Executives and technical specialists.
- Experience building a business: Success establishing a new territory, product business, or sales approach while working through ambiguity.
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience selling CDPs, customer engagement, personalization, or customer data activation software into large enterprises.
- Familiarity with Databricks, cloud data platforms, consumption-based sales, and AI applications in marketing.
- Experience developing joint opportunities with technology partners, systems integrators, or marketing services firms.
Standard Databricks U.S. recruiting language and the approved compensation range to be appended.
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
Benefits
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