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Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Sports

Databricks
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Hybrid (Northeast, United States)$192.1k - $264.2kPosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior manager leading a broad Field Engineering portfolio, shaping strategy, roadmap, and operating model; coaching multiple teams and influencing cross-functional partners to scale impact beyond the immediate team.

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.
  • Increase influence on portfolio priorities and help teams anticipate 3–12 month developments.
  • 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 insights to improve account and portfolio strategy.
  • Establish repeatable inspection mechanisms across teams (portfolio reviews, customer-health reviews, technical-risk reviews, escalation processes).
  • Coach leaders and senior practitioners through complex customer, technical, competitive, organizational, and performance situations.
  • Build and share playbooks, tools, enablement, and operating mechanisms to increase productivity and consistency beyond one team.
  • Influence Product, Engineering, Support, Professional Services, Marketing, and Partners on customer requirements and cross-functional priorities.
  • Use AI and automation to create one-to-many impact across enablement, execution, forecasting, customer planning, and team productivity.
  • Model and strengthen a culture of psychological safety, inclusion, accountability, continuous learning, and high performance.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience leading technical customer-facing teams in enterprise software, cloud, data, AI, analytics, technical consulting, or related environment.
  • Proven ability to hire bar-raising talent, develop leaders, manage performance, and optimize team structure and resourcing.
  • Experience leading through other leaders or as a senior leader on a complex team.
  • Strong strategic judgment to identify high-impact priorities, allocate resources, manage risk, and connect execution to long-term goals.
  • Track record of building repeatable operating mechanisms, playbooks, tools, or programs that scale beyond the immediate team.
  • Ability to influence senior internal partners across Sales, Professional Services, Solutions Architecture, Marketing, Partners, Product, Engineering, and Support.
  • Strong customer-advisory capability guiding senior stakeholders through complex technical and business decisions.
  • Proficient understanding of data and AI technologies, cloud architecture, governance, security, networking, and enterprise adoption considerations.
  • AI-first, builder mindset with evidence of applying emerging tools to improve outcomes and effectiveness.
  • Demonstrated alignment with Databricks Culture Principles.

Skills

Required:Leadership of customer-facing teamsStrategic portfolio planningCross-functional influence
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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