Dataiku Welcomes Maxwell Long as President and Chief Revenue Officer
Dataiku, the Platform for AI Success, has announced that Maxwell Long has joined the company as President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). A recognized leader in the software industry, Long will spearhead Dataiku's next phase of growth worldwide, leading global sales, customer success, and partnership teams, reporting directly to Dataiku's co-founder and CEO, Florian Douetteau.
Long is a tenured executive with over three decades of experience building and scaling commercial teams for global technology companies, including Microsoft, Adobe, and NetApp. He joins Dataiku from his most recent position at Smartsheet, where he served as President of Go-to-Market (GTM), leading a global team of over 2,300 people. During his tenure, he grew the company from hundreds of millions in ARR to over $1 billion and helped lead the company's $8.4 billion acquisition by Blackstone and Vista.
Prior to Smartsheet, Long spent three years at NetApp in several senior leadership roles, including Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and SVP of North America. There, he led the worldwide team that generated over $3 billion in sales across North America, grew the company's Cloud Sales ARR to just under $600 million, and spearheaded the transformation to a cloud-led, data-centric software company.
"Max has done this before, built commercial organizations that turn a strong product into durable, scalable growth. At a moment when our customers are moving from AI experimentation to production, that's exactly the kind of leadership Dataiku needs."
— Florian Douetteau, Co-founder & CEO, Dataiku
A Track Record Built for This Moment
Long's appointment signals Dataiku's intent to accelerate from strong product-market fit to durable global revenue growth. His career has been defined by exactly this kind of transition — taking companies with proven platforms and scaling their commercial operations to reach enterprise customers at scale across complex, multi-region markets.
With the enterprise AI market moving decisively from experimentation into production deployments, Dataiku is positioning itself as the orchestration layer organizations need to govern, deploy, and scale AI responsibly. Long's mandate spans sales, customer success, and partnerships — the full commercial infrastructure required to bring that capability to every major enterprise ready to move from AI ambition to measurable AI outcomes.
"Dataiku has built something rare: a platform enterprises trust for AI when the stakes are real. The market is moving past demos and experimentation. Every major company now has to turn AI into a repeatable source of business results, with the governance to scale it safely. I'm convinced Dataiku is built for this moment. My focus is making sure we bring that capability to every organization ready to move from AI ambition to AI success."
— Maxwell Long, President & CRO, Dataiku
Platform Momentum and Recent Innovation
Long's appointment builds on Dataiku's strong business momentum. The company has a growing global customer base of over 750 organizations spanning industries from pharmaceuticals to financial services, including LVMH, Michelin, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Equifax, and BMO.
Reasoning Systems
A new enterprise AI product enabling organizations to build and govern agentic reasoning workflows, extending Dataiku's capabilities into the fast-growing space of autonomous AI decision-making within enterprise guardrails.
Cobuild on Snowflake
A jointly developed solution with Snowflake that brings Dataiku's AI orchestration capabilities directly into the Snowflake data cloud environment, enabling enterprises to build and deploy AI where their data already lives.
Agent Management
A purpose-built capability for managing AI agents across the enterprise, providing the governance, monitoring, and control layer that organizations need as they deploy agentic AI at production scale.
575 Lab & Open Source
Dataiku's newly launched open-source office, which has already released Kiji Privacy Proxy™ and Kiji Inspector™ — tools focused on AI transparency, privacy, and governance for enterprise AI agent deployments.
Marquee Customers
Key Takeaways
Maxwell Long joins Dataiku as President and CRO, bringing over 30 years of enterprise software commercial leadership from Microsoft, Adobe, NetApp, and Smartsheet.
Long most recently served as President of GTM at Smartsheet, where he helped grow the company from hundreds of millions in ARR to over $1 billion and guided its $8.4 billion acquisition by Blackstone and Vista.
Dataiku has surpassed $350 million in ARR and now serves 750+ enterprise customers globally, with momentum driven by its Platform for AI Success strategy.
Long will oversee global sales, customer success, and partnerships — the full commercial infrastructure needed as enterprises move from AI experimentation to production-scale deployment.
Recent Dataiku innovations — Reasoning Systems, Cobuild on Snowflake, Agent Management, and the 575 Lab open-source office — reinforce the platform's position as an enterprise-grade AI orchestration layer.
Dataiku positions its platform as the enterprise orchestration layer for building, deploying, and governing AI — sitting above data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI services to connect the full enterprise AI stack. With Long now steering global commercial operations, the company is strengthening its infrastructure to support the next wave of enterprise AI adoption, where success depends on execution, governance, and the ability to scale safely across complex organizations.
To learn more about how Dataiku is helping the world's leading enterprises turn AI ambition into measurable business outcomes, visit www.dataiku.com.
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