Manager, Field Engineering France

The role

You will lead a team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects and Solutions Engineers in France. You will coach the team to communicate complex ideas and support strategic sales cycles through collaboration with Sales.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing pre-sales team in France.
• Foster an inclusive and collaborative culture.
• Partner with Sales to drive growth through solution- and value-based selling.
• Enhance team effectiveness by establishing best practices.
• Build trusted relationships with customer executives and strategic partners.
• Collaborate across teams including Marketing, Sales, and Services.
• Represent Databricks as part of the regional leadership team.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience managing technical teams in Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS environments.
• A track record of leading, mentoring, and scaling pre-sales or technical field organisations.
• Understanding of consumption-based business models.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Sales and other cross-functional leaders.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluent in English.
• Native-level French.
• Technical background in Data Engineering, Databases, or Data Science.
• Passion for data, AI, and cloud technologies and the ability to articulate their business value clearly.

Nice to have

• consulting experience is a plus

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.