4-7 years of experience in customer marketing or advocacy for enterprise customers.
Proven track record of managing customer marketing programs from strategy to execution.
Strong writing and editing skills to create compelling business narratives from technical use cases.
Experience in building relationships with large enterprise customers and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
Customer-first mindset with a focus on clear communication and positive engagement.
Excellent program management skills, including resource and timeline management.
Experience with AI tools and workflows to enhance marketing efficiency.
Responsibilities
Create compelling customer stories that align with Databricks' business priorities.
Build relationships with strategic customers to identify advocacy opportunities.
Enhance customer participation experiences to drive engagement and satisfaction.
Manage customer marketing programs from strategy through to launch and evaluation.
Activate customer stories at key events to maximize engagement and impact.
Utilize AI to streamline story development and improve insights.
Establish repeatable processes for customer marketing to ensure consistency and efficiency.
Track and report on program metrics to demonstrate impact and drive improvements.
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package tailored to employee needs.
Opportunities for annual performance bonuses and equity participation.
Full Job Description
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Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Databricks is looking for a Customer Marketing Manager to turn the experiences of our largest strategic customers into compelling stories and advocacy programs that advance Databricks' business priorities. This role owns customer marketing programs from strategy through execution, delivering trusted customer experiences and measurable impact across content, events, and advocacy.
The impact you will have:
Create stories tied to key priorities. Identify and develop customer stories that support Databricks priorities, translating technical use cases into compelling narratives with clear business outcomes.
Build with strategic customers. Build relationships with customers and account teams to uncover opportunities for case studies, videos, speaking engagements, and other advocacy activities with our most strategic customers in the Americas.
Deliver a great customer experience. Improve the customer participation experience, reflected in strong completion rates, positive feedback, and repeat engagement from participating customers.
Own programs end-to-end. Deliver programs on schedule, within approved resources, and with clear stakeholder and customer approval milestones from strategy through launch.
Bring customer stories to life at key events. Increase the reach and effectiveness of customer storytelling at key events through activations that drive attendee engagement and reinforce Databricks' business priorities.
Build and automate with AI. Improve the speed, quality, and scale of story development by deploying AI-powered tools and workflows that reduce manual effort and surface actionable customer insights.
Build repeatable processes. Enable customer marketing to scale through repeatable templates, processes, and workflows that improve consistency, efficiency, and cross-functional alignment.
Track metrics and impact. Establish clear performance reporting that demonstrates program contribution to customer advocacy, content usage, GEO optimization, event engagement, and other agreed business measures, and use those insights to improve results.
What we look for:
4-7 years of experience in customer marketing, customer advocacy, content marketing, or a closely related function supporting enterprise customers.
Demonstrated success independently managing customer marketing or advocacy programs from strategy through execution and delivering measurable results.
Excellent writing, editing, and interviewing skills, with the ability to translate complex technical use cases into compelling business-value narratives.
Experience building trusted relationships with large enterprise customers and navigating multiple accounts, legal, communications, and executive stakeholders.
A customer-first approach demonstrated through clear communication, thoughtful preparation, and the ability to create a positive, low-friction participation experience.
Strong program management, prioritization, and judgment skills, including the ability to manage timelines, resources, approvals, and competing priorities.
Practical experience building or automating AI-enabled tools and workflows that improve efficiency, quality, or insight generation.
Ability to influence cross-functional partners and work effectively with key stakeholders across industry marketing, product marketing, field marketing, account teams, and other partner organizations; set clear expectations, communicate program performance, and push back thoughtfully when needed.
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
$136,600-$187,750 USD
BenefitsAt 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 click here.
About Databricks
Databricks is a unified analytics platform that provides data engineering, collaborative data science, and machine learning capabilities. The company was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, a popular open-source big data processing engine. Databricks provides a cloud-based platform that allows data teams to collaborate and build data pipelines, run machine learning models, and perform advanced analytics. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding and is valued at $38 billion as of November 2021.