Director of Sales and Partnerships - Lucenia

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Director of Sales and Partnerships - Lucenia

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About Lucenia

Lucenia is redefining enterprise search for secure, high-performance workloads across on-prem, edge, and repatriated environments. Built by the creator of OpenSearch, Lucenia offers blazing-fast hybrid and geospatial search while slashing infrastructure costs by up to 80%. Our platform is trusted by leading defense, AI, and commercial teams to meet the demands of modern, compute-heavy workloads — without compromise.

About Lucenia

Lucenia is redefining enterprise search for secure, high-performance workloads across on-prem, edge, and repatriated environments. Built by the creator of OpenSearch, Lucenia offers blazing-fast hybrid and geospatial search while slashing infrastructure costs by up to 80%. Our platform is trusted by leading defense, AI, and commercial teams to meet the demands of modern, compute-heavy workloads — without compromise.

The Role

We're hiring our first Director of Sales and Partnerships to drive revenue growth and establish the go-to-market engine that will carry Lucenia to Series A. You'll report directly to the CEO and work alongside the founding team to shape our sales motion, refine messaging, and adapt quickly to what's working.

You'll be selling into enterprise and federal customers running secure or high-throughput search infrastructure on their terms — where performance, privacy, and cost control matter.

This is a rare opportunity to lead early revenue growth at a technically differentiated company in a massive and underserved market.

What You'll Do

• Own execution across the full sales cycle—from relationship building, partnership, and outbound prospecting to closed-won
• Refine and iterate messaging based on customer feedback and market signals
• Help grow inbound by working with marketing to amplify traction and urgency
• Build and qualify pipeline in target verticals with urgency and focus
• Represent Lucenia in customer calls, demos, and technical evaluations
• Lay the groundwork for future GTM hires and playbooks
  
  

• First 6 months:
• Develop pipeline 3-5M w/ $1M Quota
• Deliver 2–3 repeatable campaigns to drive strategic partnerships and amplify brand recognition
• Convert initial prospects into multi-year customers

• First 12 months:
• Exceed $1M in closed ARR
• Help shape our GTM roadmap, comp plans, and hiring priorities
  

• 4–10 years in B2B infrastructure or AI-related sales
• Proven closer with a strong track record of quota attainment and pipeline growth and conversion
• Strong at building trust-based partnerships and navigating technical buyer conversations
• Comfortable navigating early-stage ambiguity and wearing multiple hats
• Flexible on travel for critical meetings, with typical cadence expected around 25%
• Bonus: Experience selling into regulated industries, data-heavy environments, or with search, observability, or cybersecurity tooling
  
  

• OTE: $350,000 with a 50/50 base/commission split
• Overachievement pay: Tiered accelerators for exceeding ARR targets
• Equity: Early equity grant reflective of your role as a key early GTM hire
• Benefits: Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Retirement: 401(k) with employer matching
• Workstyle: Remote-first culture with flexibility and ownership
  
  

• Led by the creator of OpenSearch and backed by experienced investors
• Active traction with large, security-conscious customers
• A massive market opportunity as infrastructure teams rethink legacy platforms and regain control
• Real ownership, real upside, and a chance to build something enduring from the ground up
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Software Development

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