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Base Optimization Specialist

Join Airtable as a Base Optimization Specialist to enhance customer experiences through effective database restructuring and optimization.

Location
London, UK
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
mid
Type
full time

AI in the day-to-day

You use AI in your own work to accelerate research, prototype solutions, and move faster through unfamiliar problems.

Benefits

Health Insurance Parental Leave Paid Time Off Pension Home Office Stipend Volunteer Days Free Lunch Wellness Budget

Joblaze summary

The Base Optimization Specialist at Airtable focuses on diagnosing and restructuring customer environments to enhance their use of the platform. This role requires expertise in relational data modeling, automation, and workflow design, along with strong communication skills to guide clients through technical solutions. Ideal candidates have a background in consultative, customer-facing roles within B2B SaaS and possess a keen interest in optimizing database architecture. Airtable's commitment to customer success and innovation is evident as the company continues to expand its presence in the EMEA region.

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: interfaces, integrations, Automation, AI, relational databases.
What seniority level is this role?
Airtable targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Base Optimization Specialist role at Airtable.

From the original posting

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.

Since our EMEA launch in 2022, Airtable has established a strong regional footprint. From our new EMEA headquarters at Borough Yards in London to our growing teams across France and Germany, we're bringing Airtable closer to our customers and deepening our commitment to their success.

As we continue to scale, we are highly invested in what matters most - our people. We believe great products are built by great people, which is why we're looking for exceptional talent to help shape the future of Airtable.

Airtable's Ask an Expert function works directly with customers via live calls to assess, restructure, and optimize how they've built on the platform. Sometimes that means resolving architectural limitations in a customer's current environment. Sometimes it means showing them what's possible with capabilities they haven't discovered yet, from AI and automations to interfaces and integrations. We meet customers where they are and help them take the next step.

What you'll do

  • Conduct customer calls to diagnose structural and architectural issues in how customers have built their Airtable environments. You'll assess data modeling, linked record strategy, automation design, interface configuration, and identify where the architecture is limiting the customer's outcomes.
  • Restructure and rebuild. You won't just advise, you'll get into the base and demonstrate better alternatives. Optimization at Airtable means reshaping how a customer's environment is built so it scales, performs, and unlocks capabilities they couldn't access before.
  • Frame every recommendation around business impact. Customers need to understand why a restructured base matters to their workflow, not just what changed. You connect architectural decisions to the outcomes their team cares about.
  • Identify opportunities to expand how customers use the platform, including automation workflows, interfaces for different user personas, and AI capabilities where they add value to the restructured environment.
  • Surface patterns in which customers consistently outgrow their initial architecture and feed that signal back to product, engineering, and the broader support organization.
  • Stay current on platform evolution, particularly around AI capabilities, automation architecture, and integration patterns, so your recommendations reflect what the platform can do today.

Who you are

  • You're a builder with an optimization mindset. You look at a messy database and see the clean architecture underneath it. You understand relational data modeling and can restructure a customer's environment with purpose, not just tidiness.
  • You've worked in a consultative, customer-facing technical role in B2B SaaS, whether that's solutions consulting, technical support, customer engineering, or similar. You're comfortable leading a call, diagnosing a problem live, and walking a customer through the fix.
  • You use AI in your own work to accelerate research, prototype solutions, and move faster through unfamiliar problems.
  • You're a clear communicator who can adjust their explanations to a non-technical or a highly technical stakeholder on why their single-table design is limiting them and what linked records would unlock, without making them feel like they built it wrong.
  • You're naturally curious about how people build things and why they make the choices they do. You ask good questions before you start recommending changes.
  • You have experience with relational databases, automation logic, and workflow design. Familiarity with APIs, webhooks, and scripting is a plus.

What We Offer

We believe great work starts with feeling supported - that’s why we’ve built a benefits package designed to help you thrive both inside and outside of work.

  • Travel: £7,500 annual allowance to cover your commute
  • Healthcare: Top-tier private medical, dental, and vision covered through AXA, with heavily subsidised plans available for dependants.
  • Family planning: Up to £7,200 per year through Carrot to support your path to parenthood, plus a minimum of 16 weeks fully paid maternity or paternity leave.
  • Childcare: Save up to 42% per child annually through our Workplace Nursery salary sacrifice scheme.
  • Pension & protection: 9% company pension contribution
  • Health & wellness: £150 every month to spend on whatever helps you feel your best, from fitness and mindfulness to hobbies and self-care.
  • Free lunch: Enjoy a varied, catered lunch every day you're in the office.
  • Home office: £750 one-off allowance to create a workspace that works for you.
  • Time off: 25 days annual leave, plus 4 company-wide Recharge Days, and additional time off between Christmas and New Year as part of our Winter Break.
  • Give back: 5 paid Volunteer Days each year to support causes you care about, individually or with your team.

At Airtable, we embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We strive for Airtable to be a pleasant and supportive place to work, and to attract and retain a diverse team of talented people. We take great pride in holding everyone accountable for treating each other with dignity and respect.

Airtable is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you have a medical condition or disability which inhibits your ability to complete any part of the application process, please complete our Accommodations Request Form and let us know how we may assist you.

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