Geo Core Account Executive - UAE

Databricks
London, United Kingdom
Last week
Posted
23 Apr 2026 (Last week)

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Location: London (relocation to Dubai expected early 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 UAE Country Manager, 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 UAE organisations. We’re looking for a proven Enterprise Account Executive to join our team in London (relocation to Dubai expected early 2027) to deliver net-new strategic business, bringing an informed point of view on Data and Advanced Analytics. Your insight will shape winning strategies and together with our teams and partners enable you to deliver exceptional value to customers.

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 in UAE 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 (relocation to Dubai expected early 2027) with availability for travel.
  • Demonstrable experience working with integration partners
  • Fluent English, knowledge of Arabic is a plus.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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