Customers trust the Alation Data Intelligence Platform for self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready data, fostering data-driven innovation at scale. With more than $340M in funding – valued at over $1.7 billion and nearly 600 customers, including 40% of the Fortune 100 — Alation helps organizations realize value from data and AI initiatives. Alation has been recognized in 2024 as one of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces for the fifth time, a testament to our commitment to creating an inclusive, innovative, and collaborative environment. Collaboration is at the forefront of everything we do. We strive to bring diverse perspectives together and empower each team member to contribute their unique strengths to live out our values each day. These are: Move the Ball, Build for the Long Term, Listen Like You’re Wrong, and Measure Through Customer Impact. Joining Alation means being part of a fast-paced, high-growth company where every voice matters, and where we’re shaping the future of data intelligence with AI-ready data. Join us on our journey to build a world where data culture thrives and curiosity is celebrated each day! Job Description: Alation’s Professional Services team is at the forefront of partnering with our key customers to unlock the true potential of their data, expertly translating complex data management requirements into strategies that drive true business outcomes and deliver measurable value. We are seeking a results-oriented Staff Professional Services Consultant who is passionate about leveraging Alation’s industry-leading technology to drive a data-centric culture and deliver significant impact within forward-thinking enterprises. The ideal candidate thrives on building deep, trusted advisor relationships with customers, ensuring projects are delivered with urgency, within budget, and achieving broad engagement for unparalleled customer success. As a Consultant on the Alation Professional Services team, you are an experienced professional with deep data management expertise and a proven track record of delivering successful programs that yield clear business results. You serve as a leading authority on Alation’s technology, primarily responsible for advising key client sponsors, proactively planning and leading multi-phase implementation programs designed to accelerate usage, drive meaningful engagement, and demonstrate clear business value. You are driven to ensure customers achieve their desired outcomes and maximize the return on their Alation investment, acting as the bridge between both technical and functional data management needs and strategic business objectives. What You’ll Do: Partner with enterprise customers to lead Alation software implementations focused on achieving defined business outcomes and delivering measurable value quickly, helping them articulate how effective data management directly contributes to their strategic goals. Actively participate in account knowledge transfer sessions with Alation pre-sales to understand customer goals and align implementation strategies with translating data management capabilities into tangible value delivery. Serve as a trusted advisor, guiding customers on optimal approaches for loading and managing metadata from diverse sources (databases, file systems, BI tools, etc.), always connecting technical configurations back to the business benefits they enable. Advise and guide customers on best practices for defining and populating data classifications, domains, taxonomies, glossaries, documentation, and lineage, ensuring alignment with their specific business needs and governance objectives with a clear focus on how these practices drive better business decisions and outcomes. Conduct comprehensive enablement sessions and proactively advise customers on the strategic approach and effective use of key product features and best practices to accelerate usage, drive broad adoption, and realize maximum value quickly, illustrating how specific Alation features address their data management challenges and contribute to achieving their business outcomes. Collaborate closely with customers to define functional requirements and technical specifications that directly support their desired business outcomes, ensuring data management requirements are clearly linked to the business impact. Work collaboratively with Technical Consultants to guide the creation of custom integrations for metadata ingestion, ensuring technical solutions align with functional requirements and contribute to overall project goals by effectively addressing underlying data management needs that drive business value. Provide regular, transparent project status reports and briefings to stakeholders, highlighting progress, managing expectations, and proactively addressing potential blockers to ensure timely and on-budget delivery aimed at realizing business outcomes. Actively provide input on new features to Product Management based on customer needs and insights, contributing to the continuous improvement of our product to better enable customers to translate data management into business results. Proactively identify opportunities for account expansion by understanding evolving customer needs and demonstrating the potential for Alation to deliver additional value by addressing new data management challenges that impact business outcomes. Document lessons learned, tips/tricks, and contribute to internal and external knowledge base articles, fostering a culture of shared learning and enabling others to better connect data management practices with business results. Actively participate in customer community forums, sharing expertise and collaborating with the broader Alation user base on best practices for leveraging data management to achieve strategic objectives. What You Need: Minimum 10+ years of consulting experience in a lead role with a proven track record of delivering successful projects that achieve measurable business outcomes by effectively addressing complex data management requirements, often within budget and with a focus on urgency. Experience delivering services as part of a software company, understanding the dynamics of product implementation and customer success in the context of driving business results through technology. Extensive data management experience with a focus on how data governance, data quality, master data management, and/or reference data directly enable business capabilities and contribute to achieving strategic objectives. Experience with databases and SQL proficiency, with an understanding of how data structure impacts access, value, and the ability to support business processes. Experience with Alation or other metadata management tools, understanding their role in facilitating data discovery, governance, and ultimately, enabling better business outcomes. Experience with Business Intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Sigma, Looker), understanding how data is consumed and how effective data management and governance impact analytical outcomes and business decision-making. Energized and excited about thriving in a high-growth, startup environment where urgency and impact are valued, particularly in delivering data management solutions that drive business outcomes. Passionately curious and committed to continuous learning and proactively innovating and improving both personally and professionally, staying ahead of industry trends and Alation capabilities to better advise customers on achieving business results through data management. Comfortable and effective working in a non-traditional office environment using virtual teaming and working remotely, demonstrating strong collaboration skills regardless of location to partner effectively with customers on their journey from data requirements to business outcomes. Deeply passionate about ensuring customers achieve maximum value out of their investment, acting as their advocate and partner in translating their data management needs into tangible business success. Willing to travel up to 30% to engage directly with customers and project teams. #LI-WR1 Compensation Pay Range: $112,091.00 - $151,323.00 Salary Information The base salary range is specific to the United States. The salary of the final candidate selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to internal equity, experience, education, work location, specialty and training. If the final candidate has a different level of experience, the base salary target range may be lower or higher than what is published. Alation, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested. This company participates in E-Verify. Click on any of the links below to view or print the full poster. E-Verify and Right to Work. Our growth is creating great opportunities! Our team is expanding, and we want to hire the most talented people we can. Continued success depends on it! So once you've had a chance to explore our current open positions, apply to the ones you feel suit you best and keep track of both your progress in the selection process, and new postings that might interest you! Thanks for your interest in working on our team!! Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match. Our founders have come together from different backgrounds: business, engineering, and design. This unique mix from our founding team is important to the Alation culture story. Today, our team consists of creators and communicators with varied backgrounds - from Stanford, to the Indian Institute of Technology, big companies and one-person startups, the United States, and abroad. We continue to seek ever more diverse perspectives as we grow. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, name, religion, color, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Why Alation? Market-Leading Data Catalog Provider High-growth, collaborative environment with diverse and inclusive teams Continuous learning, enrichment and development opportunities Competitive pay and health offerings including commuter benefits Flexible time off to relax and recharge
