Senior Field Engineering Leader: Strategy & Growth

Databricks; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 192,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Manager, Field Engineering to lead a broad team of technical customer advisors and shape the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for a significant Field Engineering portfolio. You will scale impact beyond your immediate team through other leaders, cross-functional initiatives, reusable practices, and strong customer and partner relationships.

This role typically leads Field Engineering professionals across a broader portfolio and may include responsibility for

Qualifications

• Experience managing technical customer-facing teams and/or other people leaders.
• Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder customer engagements and cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience in data platforms, analytics, AI, cloud, software, or related technical domains.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, decision-making, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop Field Engineering professionals and emerging people leaders across a broader portfolio.
• Set team strategy and roadmaps that connect customer needs, technical priorities, business outcomes, and broader Field Engineering goals.
• Partner with Sales and cross-functional leadership to shape technical-win strategy, resource allocation, customer coverage, and execution plans.
• Build trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders and use customer, market, and competitive insight to improve account and portfolio strategy.
• Establish repeatable inspection mechanisms across teams, including portfolio reviews, customer-health reviews, technical-risk reviews, and escalation processes.

Skills

Leading technical teams

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic portfolio leadership

People leadership

AI/data technologies understanding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Manager, Field Engineering to lead a broad team of technical customer advisors and shape the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for a significant Field Engineering portfolio. You will scale impact beyond your immediate team through other leaders, cross-functional initiatives, reusable practices, and strong customer and partner relationships.

This role typically leads Field Engineering professionals across a broader portfolio and may include responsibility for