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Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Databricks’ AI-first learning platform. Build contextual guidance, adaptive learning paths, learner models, assessments, skills graphs, analytics, and personalization tools. Partner with engineering, UX, curriculum, education, and go-to-market teams to deliver scalable learning experiences for customers, partners, and employees. Define metrics, understand skills gaps, engage users, and improve platform adoption through embedded learning capabilities.

Provides technical leadership and pre-sales guidance for Databricks Customer Lake implementations. Designs customer data, CDP, Lakehouse, identity resolution, audience activation, personalization, and agentic AI solutions; leads executive engagements, workshops, demos, POCs, and technical collateral. Partners with account teams, GSIs, and consulting organizations to drive adoption, influences product roadmaps, handles tier-three escalations, improves qualification processes, and mentors field teams.

Customer-facing engineer who designs, builds, and productionizes GenAI applications (RAG, multi-agent, Text2SQL, fine-tuning). Own production rollouts, advise customers, collaborate with product and engineering, present at conferences, and optimize/evaluate models and deployments across cloud platforms.

Leads global marketing planning, investment allocation, capacity modeling, and target setting. Builds and manages a new team while redesigning marketing workflows for AI and agent-based execution. Drives organization-wide adoption, establishes standards for prompts and context, and implements AI governance around quality, risk, privacy, and responsible use. Partners with Marketing, Finance, Sales Strategy, and data and platform teams to improve pipeline efficiency, time to market, and growth across business units.

Leads platform incident investigations, coordinates detection and resolution, performs root cause analyses, and designs customer-focused monitoring, alerting, and observability workflows. Builds automation, improves platform reliability, mentors engineers, and participates in on-call rotations. The role requires cloud, container orchestration, monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, and production automation expertise.

Leads Databricks’ AI transformation strategy with enterprise C-suite executives and strategic partners. Builds trusted-advisor relationships, co-creates AI transformation roadmaps, and oversees execution, deployment, operating models, and value realization. Develops repeatable executive engagement and co-sell programs, leads C-suite workshops, and establishes an external AI Transformation Expert Advisory Council. Requires extensive enterprise digital and AI transformation leadership, C-suite engagement, industry expertise, operating-model development, systems-integrator collaboration, and sufficient technical credibility.

Develop and execute marketing strategy for Databricks’ venture-backed startup segment. Own positioning, messaging, content, demand generation, account-based, partner, developer, and field programs that drive pipeline, adoption, consumption, and revenue. Build relationships with venture firms, accelerators, founders, developers, customers, and strategic partners. Improve product-led conversion from trials and technical evaluations to committed production spend, while enabling sales teams and strengthening technical credibility through content, communities, and events.

Drive Lakebase revenue within Financial Services accounts by identifying opportunities, leading complex enterprise sales cycles, and selling managed Postgres for operational and AI-driven applications. Engage technical and executive stakeholders, orchestrate proof-of-value initiatives, support migrations and Postgres standardization, enable account teams, and partner with Product, Marketing, Customer Success, ISVs, and GSIs on strategic go-to-market motions.

Solutions Architects lead the adoption of Databricks' platform, consult on big data architecture, and develop solutions for customers. This role involves technical leadership, prototyping, and building reference architectures while collaborating with sales and technical teams.

Lead transformation of global travel, expense, and corporate spend programs into a digital-first, automated model. Build scalable T&E strategy, oversee travel operations, manage suppliers and corporate card programs, implement AI-enabled expense automation and controls, ensure compliance and audit readiness, partner with cross-functional teams, and build a high-performing global team.