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Own customer-facing AI and data engagements from discovery through production launch. Define business value, pilot MVPs, success criteria, and product requirements; prioritize engineering backlogs; lead technical discovery and architecture discussions; manage agile delivery, testing, security, performance, adoption, and stakeholder alignment. Partner with executives, sales, and engineers to deliver production-ready solutions and identify follow-on opportunities.

Lead technical strategy for large enterprise accounts as Databricks’ primary technical voice. Partner with account executives and technical teams to drive data and AI transformation, product adoption, proofs of concept, and executive engagement. Build technical champions, align solutions to customer strategies, lead virtual teams, mentor colleagues, and demonstrate expertise in big data, data science, cloud, value selling, and production programming.

Develop customer engagement strategies, advise customers on data analytics architecture and Databricks adoption, lead complex proofs of concept, workshops, and technical engagements, and influence executives throughout the technical sales lifecycle. Coach junior Solutions Architects, collaborate with account executives and cloud ecosystem partners, create customer-facing collateral, and provide customized solutions for complex data challenges. Travel may reach 30%.

Perform inbound and outbound prospecting to build pipeline, partner with sales to develop territory strategy, identify Databricks use cases to grow consumption, and deliver a strong customer experience through solution-focused outreach and follow-up.

Build and productionize customer-facing data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. Own architecture and design decisions, develop end-to-end data pipelines and applications, integrate ML/AI models, and guide deployment. Partner with customers, engineering, product, project managers, and support teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Train customers, resolve implementation issues, contribute reusable frameworks, and influence the product roadmap. The role requires enterprise stakeholder management, technical project delivery, and 20% customer travel.

Lead and close complex sell-side software and SaaS transactions, draft and negotiate MSAs, order forms and SOWs, advise Sales and Deal Desk on privacy, security, AI, IP and open source issues, partner with cross-functional stakeholders, improve templates and contracting processes, and provide practical legal guidance balancing risk and commercial objectives.

Leads pre-sales technical strategy for large enterprise accounts in high-tech and manufacturing. Partners with account executives and technical teams to drive Databricks evaluation, adoption, and expansion, especially for data, machine learning, and AI use cases. Builds executive relationships, establishes technical champions, leads virtual teams, presents business value, supports data-driven transformation, and mentors colleagues. Requires production programming experience and expertise in big data, data science, and cloud technologies.

Provide corporate legal support across M&A, venture and capital transactions, securities compliance and public-company readiness, governance, board materials, disclosure controls, antitrust counseling, international subsidiary management, ESG reporting, and cross-functional stakeholder advising to scale legal processes for a fast-growing technology company.

Customer-facing senior engineer who architects, builds, and productionizes end-to-end data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. Leads design decisions, implements data pipelines, ML/AI model integration, and user-facing applications, contributes reusable assets, and collaborates cross-functionally to deliver measurable outcomes and operationalized deployments for enterprise clients.

Lead day-to-day operation and maturation of Databricksprivacy compliance program, develop AI-enabled controls, run privacy by design and risk assessments, manage data subject rights, contracts (DPAs, SCCs), regulatory engagement, incident response, policy development, cross-functional training, and continuous process improvement across the company.