As the manager of the AI Natives Solutions Architect (SA) team, you will focus on growing and developing a team of SAs, Specialists SAs (SSAs), and Delivery SAs (DSA) who drive the adoption of the Databricks Platform at the largest, fastest-growing AI companies. This is the first role of its kind, unifying all the field engineering roles into a cohesive team.
You'll be responsible for leading the team in establishing best practices throughout the full lifecycle of the customers' workloads. You will help each team member achieve success, productivity, and career growth.
You will represent Databricks as a technical leader with some of its most important customers, requiring you to also work closely with internal sales, services, product, and engineering teams. You will utilize excellent communication skills to influence large product and engineering decisions based on customer and market evidence.
This role will report to the Director of Solutions Architecture for the Strategic Digital Native Business Unit.
Responsibilities:
- Hire and develop a team of deeply technical field engineers capable of guiding AI native customers across a wide range of data, analytical, and AI workloads.
- Adapt the team's skills and engagement model to match the needs of digital and AI native customers
- Consistently meet or exceed targets by making sure the team knows how to technically qualify workloads, identify important use cases, build proof of concepts, and establish themselves as trusted advisors throughout the customer life-cycle
- Travel to customer sites for executive sessions, technical workshops, and building relationships
- Establish relationships across internal organizations (engineering, product, services, sales, etc.) to ensure the success of the customers and team
- Stay current with emerging Data and AI trends in the digital native tech sector
What we look for:
- 7+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, cloud infrastructure, or machine learning)
- 3+ years of experience building and leading technical customer-facing teams: hiring, onboarding, and supporting team members in a high-growth environment
- A history of building a territory, growing strategic customers, and exceeding targets
- Experience in influencing large product and engineering decisions based on customer and market evidence.
- A track record of evolving and changing your team engagement models to adapt to customers' demands.
- Technical depth and skills in the data and AI space to build credibility with the team, customers, and stakeholders.
- Inspiring a team vision about the unique nature of the AI natives business
- A history of execution by managing workloads and consumption with sales, product, and engineering counterparts
- Experience owning technical executive alignment in accounts that guide strategic decisions
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
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