Senior Field Engineering Lead, Data & AI Solutions

Databricks Inc.; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Manager, Field Engineering to lead a team of Solutions Architects for the Startups segment. You will hire, train, and grow a diverse team focused on enterprise software, big data/analytics, data engineering, data science, data warehousing and generative AI.

You will partner with Sales and other Field Engineering segments to accelerate revenue and customer success, scale a high-performing team, and drive world-class execution to meet aggressive sales targets.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (e.g. data warehousing, big data, machine learning, or generative AI).
• Trusted advisor to technical executives guiding strategic data infrastructure decisions.
• Lead a team through best practices for technical qualification, validations, architecture discussions, and demos.
• Establish and foster external partnerships with system integrators and independent software vendors.
• Understand consumption-driven business models and the recipes for long term growth and success.
• Experience hiring, ramping, and promoting team members into larger roles.
• Create a positive culture and strong cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Product, Engineering and Customer Success.

Responsibilities

• Hire, train, and grow a team of Solutions Architects for a high-growth company.
• Make customers extremely successful with Databricks and deliver outsized value.
• Maintain a robust hiring pipeline of highly qualified candidates.
• Establish relationships across the business to ensure customer and team success.
• Keep the team ahead of the technical curve with advanced knowledge of the Databricks stack.
• Engage with customers at Executive levels to drive mutually beneficial outcomes and GTM strategy.

Skills

Team leadership

Pre-sales leadership

Field engineering

Big data

Generative AI

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Manager, Field Engineering to lead a team of Solutions Architects for the Startups segment. You will hire, train, and grow a diverse team focused on enterprise software, big data/analytics, data engineering, data science, data warehousing and generative AI.

You will partner with Sales and other Field Engineering segments to accelerate revenue and customer success, scale a high-performing team, and drive world-class execution to meet aggressive sales targets.