Staff Product Manager, Agentic AI Applications

Databricks Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own the Agentic Platform strategy, roadmap, and execution. You will work across agent runtime, MCP connectors, intelligence layer, and governance to accelerate production-grade agentic apps while ensuring security and reliability.

Collaborate with Application Engineering, CIO org, and domain teams across GTM, HR, Finance, and Product. The role emphasizes platform enablement, self-service workflows, and a measured approach to adoption and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years on internal platform, infrastructure, or developer‑experience products.
• Deep experience building platforms that other teams build on; you understand API design, developer ergonomics, and self service.
• Demonstrated experience with AI/ML platforms, agent frameworks, LLM‑powered applications, or agentic systems.
• Strong technical foundation to read architecture diagrams, discuss trade offs with engineers (e.g., sync vs. async, checkpointing, context window management).
• Experience defining and shipping developer experiences: SDKs, CLIs, templates, documentation, and self service workflows.
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional initiatives across 4+ teams without direct authority.
• Strong written communication strategy documents, PRDs, and executive briefs that drive VP/CIO alignment.
• Comfort with ambiguity, you will define the roadmap for capabilities that don’t exist yet.

Responsibilities

• Own the Agentic Platform strategy and roadmap: define what ships, order, and why with measurable criteria.
• Define and drive the agent and runtime: managed runtime, model gateway abstraction, governance, and guardrails.
• Build the MCP connector ecosystem: bidirectional connectors, identity propagation, dry-run/preview mode, connector SDK.
• Establish the intelligence layer: knowledge graph, context graph, and temporal memory with unified retrieval and traceability.
• Ship the evaluation and quality framework: offline eval, online LLM‑as‑judge scoring, and CI/CD gates.
• Design the developer experience: self‑service provisioning, environments, SDKs, templates, and documentation.
• Define the federation and adoption model across platform, domain, and citizen developer layers.

Skills

Platform product management

API design

Developer experience

Cross-functional leadership

AI/ML platforms

Agent frameworks

LLM-powered applications

Architectural literacy

SDKs/CLIs/templates

Executive alignment

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

MCP Protocol

Agent orchestration frameworks

Job description

Location: San Francisco or Mountain View, California

GAQ327R225

Databricks is building an Agentic Enterprise applications Platform a scalable, governed AI application platform built on Databricks that enables any internal team (GTM, Finance, HR, Legal, Product) to build production grade agentic applications in weeks, not months.

As a Staff Product Manager, you will own the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for the Agentic Platform the foundational layer that every domain workspace depends on. You will work across agent runtime, MCP connectors, intelligence layer, evaluation framework, developer experience, and governance to deliver a platform that reduces time-to-production from months to weeks while maintaining enterprise grade quality, security, and reliability. You will partner closely with Application Engineering, the CIO organization, and domain teams across GTM, HR, Finance, and Product to ensure the platform serves real needs and scales with the organization.

The Impact You Will Have

• Own the Agentic Platform strategy and roadmap. Define what ships, in what order, and why. Translate organizational outcomes into concrete platform capabilities with measurable success criteria.
• Define and drive the agent and runtime. Establish the managed agent runtime supporting multi step orchestration with durable execution, model gateway abstraction across all providers, governed tool invocation, and configurable per-agent guardrails (cost ceilings, timeouts, blast radius limits).
• Build the MCP connector ecosystem. Own the strategy for standardized, bidirectional connectors various systems of record. Drive on behalf of identity propagation, idempotency, dry-run/preview mode, and a connector SDK that lets domain teams onboard new systems without platform changes.
• Establish the intelligence layer. Define the three layer data architecture: knowledge graph (curated domain knowledge), context graph (live entity state from systems of record), and temporal memory (session, user preferences, and episodic history). Ensure unified retrieval across vector, structured, and graph sources with source traceability on every context element.
• Ship the evaluation and quality framework. Own the AI-judge evaluation pipeline: offline eval with golden datasets, online LLM-as-judge scoring, domain-specific judges (Finance, HR, Legal, Sales), and mandatory evaluation gates in CI/CD. No agent reaches production without passing quality and safety thresholds.
• Design the developer experience. Make the platform self‑service by construction. Domain teams provision agent projects, promote across environments, and access connectors without platform‑team tickets. SDK, CLI, sandbox environments, agent templates, and documentation — the paved road must be faster than building bespoke. Target: idea to production in <4 weeks for a standard agent.
• Define the federation and adoption model. Establish the three tiers of adoption (platform built, domain built on platform, citizen developer edge apps) with governance checkpoints at each gate. Drive the gold‑standard promotion pipeline from edge prototype to production hardened service.

What We Look For

• 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years on internal platform, infrastructure, or developer‑experience products.
• Deep experience building platforms that other teams build on you understand the difference between a platform and an application, and you have opinions about API design, developer ergonomics, and self service.
• Demonstrated experience with AI/ML platforms, agent frameworks, LLM‑powered applications, or agentic systems. You know what an agent runtime is, what RAG means in practice, and why evaluation is the hardest part.
• Strong technical foundation you can read architecture diagrams, discuss trade offs with engineers (e.g., sync vs. async, checkpointing strategies, context window management), and make informed prioritization decisions on deeply technical work.
• Experience defining and shipping developer experiences: SDKs, CLIs, templates, documentation, and self service workflows. You measure success by adoption and developer NPS, not feature count.
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional initiatives across 4+ teams without direct authority. You influence through clarity, conviction, and stakeholder alignment.
• Strong written communication strategy documents, PRDs, and executive briefs that drive alignment at VP and CIO level.
• Comfort with ambiguity, you will define the roadmap for capabilities that don't exist yet, in a space that is evolving weekly.

Nice To Have

• Experience with Databricks, Lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog, MLflow, or Delta Lake.
• Familiarity with LangGraph, LangChain, or similar agent orchestration frameworks.
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol), A2A (Agent-to‑Agent), or AG‑UI protocols.
• Experience building AI evaluation frameworks LLM‑as‑judge, red‑team­ing, or automated quality scoring.
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, or frontend platform work.
• Background in enterprise SaaS platform consolidation or migration.

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

Zone 1 Pay Range

$172,200—$236,850 USD

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

Local Pay Range

$172,200—$258,400 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

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