Geo Core Account Executive - Digital Natives
Databricks · United States
Posted today
New Business: you win brand-new customers.
- Base
- Not disclosed
- OTE
- $220K–$303K
- Quota attainment
- Not disclosed
- Posted
- 7h ago
Why it matters: OTE tells you what you could earn. Attainment tells you how realistic it is.
Ask: “What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?”
Still open · checked 4h agoon Databricks's careers page
The job
- What you'd do
- Find and win new customers for Databricks, which sells software that helps companies store and analyze huge amounts of data. You'll search for your own leads all the time.
- What you'd sell
Helps companies put all their data in one place and use it
When a company wants answers from its data, the numbers usually sit in dozens of separate systems. The problem is, pulling them together takes weeks, and by then the answer is old. Databricks keeps a company's data in one place where teams can run reports and build AI on it, so decisions get made on fresh numbers.
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- Who you'd sell to
- Heads of ITIn their words: “Prior customer relationships with CIOs and important decision-makers”
- Where deals come from
- Mostly you. Expect a lot of outbound: cold calls, emails and LinkedIn.
The Braun Read
Worth a lookSolid on the basics. Use the first call to fill in the gaps.
- Pay
- OTE is listed. Ask what the base is.
- Transparency
- Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle. Ask about all five.
- Time on market
- Brand new.
- Company hiring
- Ramping up: posted 39 sales roles in the last 30 days. That many open roles can also mean churn. Ask how many reps are still there from last year.
Red lights
None spotted.
Green lights
- Publishes OTE. It tells you the on-target earnings up front. Most postings don't.
- Pays more past quota. Higher commission rates once you pass quota. Overperformance actually pays.
Based only on what the posting says. Lights are a starting point for your first call, not a final judgment.
Questions to ask on the first call
Built from what this posting leaves out. How they answer tells you as much as what they say.
- 1.
What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?
OTE is what you could earn. This is how likely you are to earn it.
- 2.
What percentage of reps on the team have been here more than 18 months?
Tenure shows whether people stay long enough to get paid.
- 3.
Has the comp plan changed in the last 12 to 18 months? What changed?
A plan that changes every year means the goalposts keep moving.
- 4.
Who sits with reps and reviews calls each week?
Coaching is often what's behind a good or bad attainment number.
- 5.
Before You Apply
Find out where you fit, and where you don't, before you hit submit.
Why I built it this way ↓
Most résumé tools try to make you look like a match. I'd rather help you find out if you are one.
Nothing made up.
Nothing goes on your résumé that you didn't do. If a line would need a number you didn't give me, I ask. I don't guess. On Braun Board it's checked in code, not just promised.
Curiosity before conclusions.
If the job wants something your résumé doesn't show, I ask before I assume. Plenty of sellers have done the thing and just never wrote it down.
Sorting, not selling.
Some jobs won't line up with what you've done. Finding that out before you apply isn't a loss. It's an hour back, spent on a job that fits.
No score.
A match score tells you how well you copied their words. It doesn't tell you whether you'd be good at the job, or happy there.
It's the same way I teach selling. We don't control who says yes. We do control where we spend our time, and whether everything we say is true.
Josh
More on this1 Is the job worth it?
Worth a look. Solid on the basics. Use the first call to fill in the gaps.
No red lights. 1 thing the posting doesn't say, worth asking on the first call.
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Full posting
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As a Digital Native Account Executive at Databricks, you have a strong command of the SaaS sales process. You know how to sell innovation and change through customer vision expansion and can guide deals forward to compress decision cycles. You love understanding a product in-depth and are passionate about communicating its value to prospective customers and partners. Always prospecting for new opportunities, you will target net-new accounts. Along with the chance to close exciting deals, we also offer accelerators for exceeding 100% quota. You will report to a regional sales manager.
The impact you will have:
- Assess your accounts and develop a strategy to identify and engage all buying centers
- Use a solution approach to selling and creating value for customers
- Identify the most viable use cases in each account to maximize Databricks impact
- Orchestrate and work with teams to maximize the impact on your ecosystem
- Build value with all engagements to promote successful negotiations to close point
- Promote Databricks enterprise cloud data platform powered by Apache Spark
- Be Customer focused by delivering technical and business results using the Databricks Platform
- Promote Teamwork...it makes the Dreamwork!
What we look for:
- You have previously worked in an early-stage company, and you know how to navigate and be successful in a fast-growing organization.
- Sales experience within big data, Cloud, or SaaS sales
- Prior customer relationships with CIOs and important decision-makers
- Simply articulate intricate cloud technologies and big data
- Experience exceeding sales quotas
- Success closing new business to net new accounts
- 3+ years of sales experience in SaaS/PaaS companies
- Bachelor's Degree
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Zone 1 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Zone 2 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Zone 3 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Zone 4 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utlizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Zone 2 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Zone 3 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Zone 4 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Zone 3 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Zone 4 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Zone 2 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Zone 3 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
Zone 4 Pay Range
$220,100-$302,600 USD
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.
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