Who we are

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.

As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.

We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams – and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.

The role

As the Workplace Planning Lead, you will ensure our physical footprint advances in lockstep with our company growth, creating environments that empower our teams to deliver more, faster. You will guide the evolution of our global office footprint, addressing space needs and translating business growth into effective workplace planning and execution. Working closely with Workplace Managers, Real Estate partners, and leadership, you will facilitate choices related to office expansions, relocations, and consolidations, ensuring our offices support scaling at pace. This position represents the first global planning layer within the Workplace team and will help shape how our workplace function scales in the coming years.

The day-to-day

• Guide space transitions at pace across existing office locations and develop seat and capacity planning models aligned with headcount growth
• Forecast workplace demand across locations, defining workplace standards and seating strategies
• Facilitate and implement swift data-informed choices to support operational scaling
• Apply LLMs and AI-enabled workflows within a corporate real estate and operational context
• Coordinate real estate planning choices, such as lease renewals, expansions, or consolidations, and partner with Real Estate teams to evaluate footprint changes and location strategy
• Provide workplace data and capacity insights to inform lease negotiations
• Plan workplace requirements for new offices, relocations, and office closures, alongside workplace design and layout planning
• Coordinate facility setup with Workplace Managers to ensure smooth office transitions
• Develop occupancy metrics and dashboards to track workplace capacity across offices, design simple planning models to support leadership choices, and identify opportunities to optimise workspace utilisation

You should apply if you

• Have a proven track record in workplace planning, workplace strategy, corporate real estate, or facilities planning
• Have successfully overseen office expansions, relocations, or workplace transformations
• Possess excellent systematic and planning skills, with the ability to translate business growth into workplace needs
• Have collaborated across multiple office locations or global organisations
• Demonstrate excellent stakeholder collaboration and communication skills

Note: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.

Nice to have

• Hold a background in interior architecture or experience with space planning tools such as AutoCAD
• Have background scaling operations in high-growth or technology companies
• Communicate fluently in the German language

Join Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields

• Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns
• The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world
• Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental: Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward
• In our domain, success is a matter of order-of-magnitude improvements and novel capabilities. This means we take bets, aim high, and focus on big opportunities. Despite being a relatively young company, Helsing has already been selected for multiple significant government contracts
• We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it. Teams and individual engineers are trusted (and encouraged) to practise responsible autonomy and critical thinking, and to focus on outcomes, not conformity. At Helsing you will have a say in how we (and you!) work, the opportunity to engage on what does and doesn’t work, and to take ownership of aspects of our culture that you care deeply about

What we offer

• Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP)
• Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
• Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
• Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
• Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances
• Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

These are the core benefits across all locations; there may be additional benefits in specific sites.

Helsing is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.

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Databricks is seeking a Lakebase Sales Specialist Account Executive to help 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.

The impact you will have

• Drive new Lakebase revenue by identifying, qualifying, and closing Lakebase opportunities 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.

What success looks like in this role

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.

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:

1. Business ownership – Operate at a business-unit level by tracking revenue, pipeline, and key observations, and by identifying areas needing additional focus or support.
2. Strategic account engagement – Partner with account teams to engage priority accounts across the global DB700, driving strategic opportunities from initial engagement through successful outcomes.
3. Field enablement – Build and execute enablement plans that empower AEs and SAs to confidently carry the Lakebase conversation even when the specialist is not present.
4. Market voice and thought leadership – Develop an internal and external presence by contributing to global AMAs and internal forums, and by representing Databricks at key first- and third-party events.

The interview process is designed to evaluate candidates across all four of these dimensions.

What we look for

• 7+ years of enterprise SaaS sales experience, consistently exceeding quota in complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
• Proven success selling data platforms, operational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, cloud-native DBaaS), or adjacent data/AI infrastructure to technical buyers and business leaders.
• Strong understanding of modern data and application architectures, including cloud-native services, microservices, event-driven systems, and how operational data underpins AI and analytics strategies.
• Ability to sell to both technical stakeholders (developers, architects, data engineers) and business stakeholders (product leaders, operations, line-of-business owners).
• Demonstrated experience leading specialist or overlay motions, working jointly with core Account Executives to create and progress opportunities.
• Executive presence with the ability to whiteboard architectures, lead C-level conversations, and build trust with senior decision makers.
• Strong value selling skills: adept at discovering pain, building a business case, and tying technical capabilities to clear, quantified outcomes.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and negotiation skills, with comfort presenting to both large and small audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience selling Postgres, operational databases, OLTP workloads, or transactional cloud database services, ideally within large or strategic accounts.
• Familiarity with data platforms, lakehouse architectures, and cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP), including how operational databases fit within broader data and AI strategies.
• Understanding of reverse ETL, real-time decisioning, and operational analytics use cases, and how they drive value for customer-facing and internal applications.
• Exposure to AI-native and agent-driven applications that depend on low-latency, highly scalable operational data services.
• Prior experience in a high-growth, category-creating environment, helping shape new plays, messaging, and customer narratives.
• Experience collaborating with partners and ISVs to drive joint pipeline and co-sell motions.

This description is intended to outline the core responsibilities and qualifications for the Lakebase Account Executive role. Actual responsibilities may evolve as the Lakebase product and go-to-market motions continue to grow and mature.