Lakebase Sales Specialist, Healthcare & Life Sciences

## Responsibilities - 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. ## Requirements - While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered. We are hiring for multiple roles. - Databricks is seeking a Lakebase Sales Specialist to help healthcare & life sciences customers modernize their operational data foundation with Databricks Lakebase, our fully-managed Postgres offering for intelligent applications. This high-impact role sits within the Lakebase Go-To-Market team and partners closely with regional Account Executives to drive adoption of Lakebase with platform, application, and data teams. - Lakebase gives customers a unified, governed foundation for operational workloads and AI-native applications, helping them move away from a fragmented estate of point databases toward a modern, scalable, serverless Postgres service. If you want to be at the forefront of operational databases for AI and intelligent applications at one of the fastest-growing data and AI companies in the world, this is your opportunity. ## Nice to Have - Candidates should demonstrate how they can act as a force multiplier across multiple dimensions of the business. - Success in this role requires strength in four areas: ## Benefits - This role requires the ability to operate across two key motions simultaneously: - 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.