Databricks

Manager, Field Engineering - MFG

Databricks$172K — $237K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years managing technical pre-sales teams
  • 7+ years experience in Data + AI with technical products
  • Deep understanding of Data + AI's industry impact
  • Technical competence to gain trust from engineering teams
  • Experience as a trusted advisor to technical executives
  • Proficient in leading teams in technical qualification and solution architecture
  • Background in collaborating with product management and customer success teams

Responsibilities

  • Hire, train, and manage a high-performing team of Solutions Architects
  • Foster customer success and drive value for their businesses
  • Maintain a constant hiring pipeline to meet demands
  • Establish cross-departmental relationships to enhance team and customer success
  • Collaborate with sales leadership to achieve targets
  • Ensure team stays updated with the latest in Data + AI technology
  • Implement best practices for technical qualifications and product demonstrations

Benefits

  • Professional growth opportunities
  • Dynamic and collaborative work environment
  • Flexibility to work remotely or in-office
  • Focus on continuous learning and development
  • Equitable compensation practices
Full Job Description
REQ ID - FEQ327R483

Location(s): Central US (Texas, Illinois, St. Louis)

While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role, we are open to remote candidates in other locations in the Central United States.

As a Field Engineering Manager, you will manage a team of Solutions Architects (SAs) for the Manufacturing Segment of Databricks' Field Engineering organization. You will lead a dynamic team of pre-sales professionals focusing on enterprise software, big data/analytics, data engineering, data science, and AI. You will partner with Sales (and other Field Engineering technical segments) to increase revenue and help customers become wildly successful. You'll scale and maintain an outstanding Field Engineering team that is efficient in its operations to help accelerate Databricks' growth in the market.

The impact you will have:
  • You will hire, train, grow, and manage a bar-raising team of Solutions Architects for a company in high-growth mode.
  • Make your customers extremely successful with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses.
  • You will maintain a robust hiring pipeline at all times.
  • Establish relationships across the business to make your customers and team successful.
  • Partner with sales leadership to hit sales and consumption targets while ensuring customer success
  • Keep your team of SAs ahead of the technical curve. You will make sure that your team is continuously learning, maintaining advanced knowledge of the data+AI technology stack, and working to provide our customers with the most comprehensive solutions for their needs

What we look for:
  • 3+ years of experience building and leading technical pre-sales teams - hiring, onboarding, coaching, and enabling pre-sales professionals
  • 7+ years of experience in the Data + AI space with a technical product (i.e., data warehousing, big data, data science, machine learning, or AI).
  • A deep technical understanding of the impact that Data + AI can drive within various industry segments
  • Technical competence to earn the trust of Engineering talent and leadership at Databricks.
  • Trusted advisor to technical executives who guide strategic data infrastructure decisions.
  • Lead a team through best practices for technical qualification, proof of concepts, architecture discussions, and product demonstrations.
  • Experience hiring pre-sales professionals, ramping them up to be successful, promoting them into larger roles, identifying and addressing performance issues, and implementing improvement plans.
  • Create a positive team culture and help foster working relationships between Field Engineering, Sales, and other important internal partners.
  • Experience working with other teams such as Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success.
  • Demonstrated architectural influence. Able to influence and review complex architectures, guiding your team and customers toward ideal solutions that scale.


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 2 Pay Range

$172,500-$237,150 USD

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.
Learn more about Databricks
Size
2,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2013

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