Head of Emea Financial Services Gtm

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Paris, France · Exec Sales

Head of EMEA Financial Services Go-to-Market (GTM) Leader responsible for driving the GTM strategy, building assets, maintaining executive relationships, and growing the Banking/Payments, Capital Markets, and Insurance businesses within Databricks. This role requires deep domain expertise in financial services and a passion for how Data+AI can transform the industry.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the strategy for Financial Services GTM - create growth execution plan, drive C-level relationships with customers, and drive new customers logos and revenue growth
  2. Work with the sales and pre-sales teams to create account-level, segment-level and region-level go-to-market plans across the globe for the vertical
  3. Work with partners to develop strategic C-level relationships with ISV and CSI partners
  4. Identify operational gaps in each sub-segment of the GTM motion, be data-driven about quantifying business opportunities and execute improvement plans
  5. Develop comprehensive sub-vertical sales plays with Sales Programs teams to build scalable and geographically tailored motions to drive growth in EMEA.

Skills

Required

  • Executive experience in Banking (CxO level)
  • Deep understanding of global and European financial regulations (Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance)
  • Experience driving business and technical change in large FSI institutions
  • Strong executive relationship building and customer-facing presence
  • Experience building vertical solutions on technology platforms
  • Experience with go-to-market sales strategies and sales kits
  • Knowledge of the banking/payments technology landscape
  • Program management of vertical solutions
  • Sales enablement and coaching

Nice to have

  • Passion for Data+AI transformation in banking
  • Familiarity with unique challenges faced by European Financial Service Institutions

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience working as an executive (CxO) in Banking for 10+ years.
  • Intimate knowledge of key global regulations in Banking/Payments, Capital Markets and Insurance industries with a particular focus on European regulations
  • Experience driving change at large FSI institutions both from technical and business perspective with a strong understanding of how large FSIs make decisions
  • Strong customer-facing presence (CXO, IT and Business Leaders), ability to cultivate executive relationships and open doors for the field
  • Experience working in with cross-functional resources to built-out Vertical Solutions on an existing technology platform that has generated revenue and value for the customer
  • Experience working with sales and technical pre-sales, building go-to-market sales kits to drive market penetration
  • Hands-on experience with program managing vertical solutions (which includes: collecting, tracking and prioritising vertical business requirements, working with technical resources to ensure timelines are met, collaborating with marketing to develop marketing assets and event planning, working with partner teams to track partner relationship progress ensuring key milestones are met)