<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Req ID FEQ327R163</p> <header> <div class="header-top"> </div> </header> <div class="section-heading"> <section class="page"> <div class="page-content"> <div class="section-heading">About the Role</div> <p>As a Director, Field Engineering, you will lead a multi-team Field Engineering organization and own strategy, talent, operating model, and execution for a significant business area. You will scale customer and business impact through other leaders while influencing broader go-to-market, partner, Product, Engineering, and company priorities.</p> <p>This role typically oversees a leadership team of approximately 3–5 leaders or an equivalent multi-team scope. Depending on the assignment, you may lead a broad business unit, multiple segments or countries, a major portfolio, or another strategically significant area.</p> <div class="section-heading">The Impact You Will Have</div> <ul> <li>Build and lead a strong leadership team that attracts, develops, and retains exceptional Field Engineering talent.</li> <li>Own an end-to-end strategy across talent, customer coverage, technical priorities, operating model, execution, and business impact.</li> <li>Translate customer, market, competitive, and technical trends into clear priorities and 6–12+ month plans.</li> <li>Scale impact beyond individual teams through leaders, cross-functional GTM initiatives, partner ecosystems, and repeatable operating mechanisms.</li> <li>Build trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders, including VP-level and equivalent audiences, and guide complex programs, escalations, and transformation roadmaps.</li> <li>Establish operating norms and inspection cadences across the organization that create visibility, accountability, predictable execution, and fast course correction.</li> <li>Shape resourcing and organizational design to support growth, customer outcomes, technical quality, and long-term business value.</li> <li>Upgrade hiring rigor, talent practices, leadership development, performance management, and succession planning across the organization.</li> <li>Influence broader Sales, Professional Services, Marketing, Partners, Product, Engineering, Support, and executive priorities through a clear point of view and strong cross-functional relationships.</li> <li>Partner with GTM Strategy & Operations and other functions to create scalable tools, programs, dashboards, and mechanisms; use AI to drive one-to-many organizational impact.</li> <li>Act as a recognized resource on data, AI, cloud, customer transformation, and evolving market trends.</li> <li>Embed Databricks Culture Principles into hiring, development, recognition, decision-making, and daily operations while maintaining a high bar for performance and customer impact.</li> </ul> <div class="section-heading">What We Look For</div> <ul> <li>Extensive experience leading technical customer-facing organizations in enterprise software, cloud, data, AI, analytics, technical consulting, or a related environment.</li> <li>Proven success leading through managers and building a high-performing leadership team.</li> <li>Track record of recruiting exceptional talent, developing leaders, addressing complex performance situations, and evolving organizational structure for scale.</li> <li>Strong strategic and business judgment, with the ability to connect customer and market insight to organizational priorities and measurable business outcomes</li> <li>Experience designing and running operating models across multiple teams, portfolios, segments, geographies, or countries.</li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="page"> <div class="page-content"> <ul> <li>Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders across Sales, Professional Services, Marketing, Partners, Product, Engineering, Support, and executive stakeholders.</li> <li>Executive-level customer-advisory skills, including the ability to guide complex programs, critical escalations, technical strategy, and long-term transformation roadmaps.</li> <li>Strong technical credibility across data platforms, analytics, AI, cloud architecture, governance, security, networking, and enterprise adoption, with the judgment to pressure-test complex approaches.</li> <li>An AI-first, builder mindset demonstrated through experimentation, adoption, and scalable application of AI to customer outcomes and organizational effectiveness.</li> <li>Demonstrated alignment with Databricks Culture Principles and a track record of preserving and strengthening culture during growth and change.</li> </ul> <div class="section-heading">Basic Qualifications</div> <ul> <li>Experience leading multi-team technical customer-facing organizations and managing through other leaders.</li> <li>Experience owning strategy and execution for a significant business area, portfolio, geography, segment, or comparable scope.</li> <li>Experience leading complex customer transformations and cross-functional initiatives.</li> <li>Experience in data platforms, analytics, AI, cloud, software, technical consulting, or a related technical domain.</li> <li>Strong written, verbal, presentation, strategic-planning, and executive-stakeholder skills.</li> <li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li> </ul> <div class="section-heading">Preferred Qualifications</div> <ul> <li>Experience with Dat