Senior AI Deployment Strategist

Fdetimes; United States; Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 302,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Deployment Strategist to bridge customer multi-million-dollar problems with our AI platform. You will own the product direction, from discovery to production launch, and lead the technical team through architecture decisions, ensuring scalable, valuable outcomes.

You will build executive trust, map organizational data landscapes, and drive the MVP for pilots. Expect significant customer-facing work and a hands-on delivery mindset to land production-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• Executive presence and communication with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong product judgment: define what to build and why, and prioritize work.
• Deep understanding of modern data & AI architectures and systems.
• Hands-on ability to prototype, explore data, and troubleshoot pipelines.
• Experience delivering data/AI or software engagements to production environments.

Responsibilities

• Bridge customer problems to Databricks solutions and own the MVP for pilots.
• Write PRD and manage engineering backlog; ensure production readiness.
• Lead technical discovery, shape architecture with FDEs, and identify risks early.
• Own Day 0 launch, drive adoption, gather feedback, and ensure value realization.
• Collaborate with C-suite to drive strategic engagements and repeat business.

Skills

Executive presence

Product judgment

Technical architecture

Hands-on coding

Customer-facing experience

Tools

Python

Java

SQL

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Deployment Strategist to bridge customer multi-million-dollar problems with our AI platform. You will own the product direction, from discovery to production launch, and lead the technical team through architecture decisions, ensuring scalable, valuable outcomes.

You will build executive trust, map organizational data landscapes, and drive the MVP for pilots. Expect significant customer-facing work and a hands-on delivery mindset to land production-ready solutions.