Global Event Technology Leader

Neon; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks seeks a Director of Event Technology to lead a high-performing team responsible for the systems underpinning our global corporate events, including flagship conferences, executive programs, and field events. You will drive strategy, data-driven attendee experiences, and scalable infrastructure across registration, apps, and onsite operations.

The role requires deep experience in enterprise event tech, cross-functional leadership, and strong governance with security, legal, and privacy

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in event technology, corporate events, or marketing technology, including 5+ years leading and developing full-time and contract teams.
• A demonstrated record of leading and evolving an established organization, developing strong leaders—including functional leads such as a Digital Tools Lead—delegating meaningful ownership, and building an accountable, high-trust team culture.
• Experience owning event technology strategy and delivery for a flagship conference with 35,000+ in-person attendees and a multi-city global event series.
• Broad, credible experience across enterprise event management, mobile apps, meetings, check-in and badging, signage, streaming, onsite AV, production, network, and IT, with enough technical depth to guide leads and make sound decisions.
• Experience partnering with Enterprise Security, Legal, and Privacy on platform security reviews, third-party risk, data-protection agreements, PII handling, and applicable privacy frameworks such as GDPR and CCPA.
• Experience stewarding event data layers, pipelines, warehousing or lakehouse concepts, tables, data structures, and integrations with marketing and sales systems.
• Experience managing music-rights licensing and compliance for live and broadcast events, as well as multi-million-dollar technology budgets and vendor portfolios, including SaaS negotiation, procurement, legal review, and security review.
• Demonstrated ability to evolve operating models, apply AI and agent-based workflows safely, communicate effectively with executive stakeholders, and lead through complex, fast-moving event environments.

Responsibilities

• Sustain and strengthen a high-performing event technology organization with clear structure, career paths, leadership capacity, and staffing plans aligned to a growing global event portfolio; success is measured through team retention, development progress, leadership depth, and delivery capacity.
• Own and advance a prioritized, multi-year event technology roadmap aligned with marketing leadership across Data + AI Summit, Data + AI World Tour, AI Days, executive programs, and field events; success is measured through roadmap delivery, stakeholder alignment, and adoption of agreed capabilities.
• Keep a complex event technology ecosystem launch-ready, reliable, and scalable across registration, event management, mobile apps, meetings, content, check-in and badging, signage, streaming, onsite AV, production, network, and IT; success is measured through service performance, readiness milestones, and fewer critical event technology issues.
• Govern secure and compliant handling of attendee and event data by ensuring required security, privacy, legal, vendor-risk, data-protection, and music-rights requirements are resolved before platforms or content go live; success is measured through completed approvals, documented controls, and no unresolved compliance blockers for live or distributed events.
• Strengthen and steward a trusted event data foundation that connects registration, attendance, and engagement data with Salesforce, Marketo, the Databricks platform, and reporting partners; success is measured through reconciled data, accurate reporting, and reliable access for Analytics, Marketing, and Sales Operations.
• Optimize the financial and operational performance of the event technology portfolio through disciplined budget stewardship, vendor strategy, sourcing, contracts, procurement, and multi-year SaaS negotiations; success is measured through spend against plan, vendor performance, contract outcomes, and delivery against service expectations.
• Reinforce consistent ways of working across programs—including requirements, intake, prioritization, testing, UAT, documentation, and retrospectives—so teams deliver repeatable, predictable event experiences; success is measured through adoption of operating standards and improved execution consistency.
• Expand safe, responsible AI and agent-based automation across event technology operations to reduce manual work and improve speed and quality; success is measured through documented use cases, adoption, time saved, and appropriate risk controls.

Job description

Databricks seeks a Director of Event Technology to lead a high-performing team responsible for the systems underpinning our global corporate events, including flagship conferences, executive programs, and field events. You will drive strategy, data-driven attendee experiences, and scalable infrastructure across registration, apps, and onsite operations.

The role requires deep experience in enterprise event tech, cross-functional leadership, and strong governance with security, legal, and privacy