Regional VP, Southwest

The Role

We're hiring our first Regional Vice President for the Southwest. The territory runs from the Rockies (Colorado and Utah) through Arizona and the desert Southwest to Southern California. It covers some of the fastest-growing tech corridors in the country, plus a dense base of digital-native, media, gaming, and AI companies that already run on real-time data.

You'll report to Mike Hayes and build the region from the first hire: set the strategy, recruit the team, and turn a widely spread, high-potential territory into one of the strongest regions in the Americas. This is a builder's seat with a clear path to grow with the business.

What You'll Do

• Design a multi-hub region.
• Build a coverage model across hubs that are very different from one another, including Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Denver/Boulder, Salt Lake City/Lehi, and Phoenix. Decide where to place reps first and how to sequence growth.
• Hire the founding team.
• Recruit Enterprise AEs who can sell to engineering buyers as peers: technical, commercially hungry, and able to work on their own across a large geography.
• Own the number and the forecast.
• Carry the regional quota, run a weekly operating rhythm, and deliver a forecast your leadership can rely on, backed by MEDDPICC-style deal qualification.
• Win where real-time data is the product.
• Land and expand with digital-native and AI-native companies, media and entertainment, gaming, adtech, consumer internet, and fintech, where performance and cost at scale decide the deal.
• Turn adoption into enterprise agreements.
• Work with our product-led growth motion to find ClickHouse Cloud and open-source users ready for a committed relationship, then expand across teams and use cases (analytics, observability, and AI workloads).
• Lead from inside the deal.
• Coach reps through technical evaluations, POCs, procurement, and executive negotiations. Join the calls that matter.
• Orchestrate the extended team.
• Partner closely with Solutions Architects, Marketing, Partners/Alliances, and cloud marketplace teams to build pipeline and run cohesive account strategies.
• Build ClickHouse's brand across the region.
• Show up in the local developer, data, and startup communities, from Denver and Salt Lake to LA and San Diego, through events, meetups, and executive programs.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of enterprise software sales in data infrastructure, databases, analytics, observability, or cloud, with a strong record as a quota-carrying seller.
• 5+ years leading enterprise sales teams as a first- or second-line leader, with attainment you can back up with specifics.
• Experience building or rebuilding a region from an early stage, ideally one spread across several metros, where you set coverage, hired the first reps, and grew the business.
• A strong network across the Rockies, the Southwest, and/or Southern California, both for hiring standout AEs and for reaching enterprise buyers.
• Rigorous pipeline management, deal qualification (MEDDPICC or similar), and forecast accuracy.
• Technical credibility with engineering-led buyers. You understand the modern data stack and can hold your own in architecture conversations.
• Experience with consumption-based pricing, open-source, or product-led growth models.
• The ClickHouse DNA: integrity, hunger, and accountability. You're curious, serious about the craft, and want to build rather than inherit.
• Nice to Have
• Experience selling to digital-native, AI-native, media/entertainment, or gaming companies.
• A background in real-time analytics, OLAP and columnar databases, observability, or AI/LLM infrastructure.
• Experience as an early leader at a high-growth data or infrastructure company through a period of fast scaling.
• Co-selling with AWS, GCP, or Azure, and transacting through cloud marketplaces.
• Experience leading a distributed team across several states and time zones.