Head of Field Engineering – Data & AI Solutions

Jobicy; United States; Remote; USD 173,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Manager for the Digital Natives Solutions Architect (SA) team to grow and develop a group of SAs, driving the adoption of the Databricks Platform at the largest, fastest-growing tech companies.

You will lead the team in establishing best practices across the full lifecycle of customers' workloads and represent Databricks as a technical leader with key customers. This role reports to the Director of Solutions Architecture for the Strategic Digital Native BU.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product such as data warehousing, big data, cloud infrastructure, or machine learning.
• 3+ years of experience building and leading technical customer-facing teams: hiring, onboarding, and supporting teams in a high-growth environment.
• A history of building a territory, growing strategic accounts, and exceeding targets.
• Inspiring a team vision about the unique nature of the digital natives business.
• Experience owning executive alignment in accounts that guide strategic decisions.
• History of execution by managing workloads and consumption with sales, product, and engineering counterparts.

Responsibilities

• Hire and develop a team of deeply technical Solutions Architects capable of guiding digital native customers across data, analytical, and AI workloads.
• Adapt the SA team's skills and engagement model to match the needs of Digital native customers.
• Consistently meet or exceed targets by ensuring the SA team can technically qualify workloads, identify use cases, build proofs of concepts, and establish themselves as trusted advisors throughout the customer life-cycle.
• Travel to customer sites for executive sessions, technical workshops, and relationship building.
• Establish relationships across internal organizations to ensure the success of the customers and team.
• Stay current with emerging Data and AI trends in the digital native tech sector.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical depth

Data/AI workloads

Executive alignment

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Manager for the Digital Natives Solutions Architect (SA) team to grow and develop a group of SAs, driving the adoption of the Databricks Platform at the largest, fastest-growing tech companies.

You will lead the team in establishing best practices across the full lifecycle of customers' workloads and represent Databricks as a technical leader with key customers. This role reports to the Director of Solutions Architecture for the Strategic Digital Native BU.