Sr. Product Manager - Technical

Databricks Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 139,900 - 195,850; Full time

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Job summary

A leading data and AI infrastructure company is seeking a Technical Product Manager based in New York. This role involves collaborating with product and engineering teams to enhance user experiences and product capabilities in areas like OLTP databases and data governance. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in technical roles, strong skills in Python and SQL, and a deep understanding of customer needs. The position offers a competitive salary range of $139,900 — $195,850 USD depending on experience and qualifications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with a strong, hands-on technical background.
• Deep domain expertise in either transactional databases or data governance.
• Proven ability to work effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Identify and drive impactful product improvements.
• Define and run performance benchmarks.
• Shape and prioritize a meaningful product roadmap.
• Support go-to-market efforts.

Skills

Customer empathy

Strong Python skills

Strong SQL skills

Experience with AI-assisted development tools

Knowledge of transactional databases

Knowledge of data governance

Education

5+ years of experience in a technical role

Job description

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

More about the team

As a Technical Product Manager, you will work closely with product managers, engineering teams, and technical field organizations to ensure the features we design and ship deliver outstanding user experiences. This role requires you to deeply understand both functional and non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability, security, and compliance and how customers meet these requirements today. You will evaluate how these workloads are implemented on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and identify opportunities to improve the product experience. You will act as a bridge between technical field teams and product and engineering. Insights from customer PoCs, benchmarks, and real-world implementations will directly inform product decisions. You will also help ensure that product improvements are clearly communicated back to the field.

Depending on your background, you will focus on one of two critical product areas:

OLTP Databases

You will help shape our transactional database capabilities to meet the performance, reliability, and scalability requirements of modern applications and AI agents.

Data Governance

You will help ensure data assets are governed effectively, enabling controlled access, compliance, and visibility across the organization. This includes enabling governed access for AI-driven use cases (e.g. agent-based access via MCP or similar technologies).

The Impact you will have

• Identify and drive impactful product improvements in your domain of expertise
• Define and run performance benchmarks (OLTP focus) or governance best practices and reference architectures (governance focus)
• Shape and prioritize a meaningful product roadmap
• Support go-to-market efforts and guide product adoption
• For governance focus: define processes and mechanisms for how AI agents securely and compliantly access the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

What we look for

• 5+ years of experience with a strong, hands-on technical background
• Strong empathy for customers across full spectrum of Data Platform users
• Deep domain expertise in one of the following:
• Transactional databases (OLTP), cloud-native databases, or distributed systems
• Data governance, data catalogs, lineage, and access management
• Experience evaluating and comparing technologies across dimensions such as performance, reliability, governance, and compliance
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools
• Experience with systems design and architecture
• Proven ability to work effectively across product, engineering, and technical field teams

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here .

Zone 1 Pay Range

$139,900 — $195,850 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit our benefits page.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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