C-Suite AI Deployment Strategist & Pilot Lead

Databricks; California; On-site; USD 220,000 - 302,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Deployment Strategist for the Forward Deployed Engineering team, embedded with strategic customers from first call to production-ready solutions. You will own the problem from why to what, partnering with engineers for delivery and ensuring measurable business value.

You will drive discovery, define MVPs, write PRDs, and manage the project through production, with executive presence and hands-on technical leadership across data and AI architectures.

Qualifications

• Executive presence and communication to advise senior stakeholders.
• Define what to build, write strong product requirements, prioritize engineering work, and lead complex agile software projects.
• Understand modern data/AI architectures, cloud platforms, data pipelines and governance.
• Hands-on in Python, Java, or SQL; explore data, build prototypes, and troubleshoot.
• 7+ years delivering complex, customer-facing data/AI/software engagements or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Sales to perform deep discovery, map the customer’s organization, quantify business value of $10M+ problems, and define the pilot, MVP, success criteria, and timeline.
• Author the PRD, prioritize the engineering backlog, manage scope, and translate requirements into data, integration, security, and operational specs.
• Drive the FDE build team through agile delivery, manage stakeholders from C-suite to engineers, and lead technical discovery and design reviews.
• Own the Day 0 launch, manage the war room, drive adoption, and ensure production readiness across data quality, testing, security, and operations.
• Scope ongoing maintenance, create customer documentation/training, and identify next high-value FDE engagement.

Skills

Executive presence

Product judgment

Technical fluency

Hands-on coding

Customer-facing experience

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Deployment Strategist for the Forward Deployed Engineering team, embedded with strategic customers from first call to production-ready solutions. You will own the problem from why to what, partnering with engineers for delivery and ensuring measurable business value.

You will drive discovery, define MVPs, write PRDs, and manage the project through production, with executive presence and hands-on technical leadership across data and AI architectures.