James Smith

Global SDR Director @ Cockroach Labs | Scale when others fail

Role
Global Director, Sales Devlopment at Cockroach Labs
Location
Austin, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About James Smith

With over ten years of experience in sales development and data analysis, I am passionate about helping businesses create and maintain a competitive advantage and win customer loyalty. As the Global SDR Director at Cockroach Labs, I lead a team of sales professionals who are responsible for engaging companies ready to adopt CockroachDB, the cloud-native, distributed SQL database built for unbreakable resilience and scale.I am also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and a Lean Practitioner, with a strong background in optimizing sales processes, improving operational efficiency, and delivering data-driven insights.

Experience

  1. Global Director, Sales Devlopment

    Cockroach Labs

    Oct 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US

    Data-intensive applications run the world. Which means they probably run your business, too.Every enterprise, in every corner of the market and every corner of the globe, relies on the apps they build and maintain to create competitive advantage and win customer loyalty.Mission-critical applications deserve a database that’s up to the task.Which is precisely what we’re building in CockroachDB: an enterprise-caliber, distributed SQL database architected to eliminate downtime, simplify operations, and enable seamless customer experiences anywhere on the planet. It’s a database that scales when others fail, to unlock opportunities others can’t.

Education

  • University of Oklahoma

    Bachelor of Science - BS

  • LSU Shreveport

    Master of Business Administration - MBA

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