Global Workplace Services Manager, Events & Experiences

The role

The Global Workplace Services Manager will develop and drive the strategy, design, and execution for events and experiences across the company portfolio. This role focuses on transforming offices into community hubs through high-impact programming and scalable processes for meetings, trainings, and executive gatherings.

What you will do

• Define and execute a multi-region workplace experience strategy.
• Direct end-to-end planning and delivery for high-visibility workplace events.
• Supervise on-site physical events and manage real-time staffing logistics.
• Partner with internal stakeholders including Internal Communications, People/HR, and IT/AV.
• Develop standardized global playbooks, service-level agreements, and operational guidelines.
• Oversee global contracts and relationships with event production vendors and catering teams.
• Manage and build a multi-million-dollar global experience budget.
• Establish key metrics to measure event impact.
• Mentor and coach workplace specialists and outsourced team members.

Required qualifications

• 8–12+ years leading workplace experience, experiential events, or hospitality programs within a fast-growing global tech company.
• Background in planning and driving large-scale, high-budget corporate events and multi-city experiential events on a global scale.
• Well versed on in-office event execution and constraints.
• Capacity to independently manage complex logistical operations with concurrent execution timelines.
• Experience in event production, including technical/AV integration, spatial planning, and high-touch VIP white-glove service.
• Communication skills to draft robust communications plans for events, programs, and operations.
• Organizational skills, managing multiple work streams and projects.
• Customer focused attitude.
• Experience working with a mix of outsourced partner teams, vendors, and FTEs.
• Experience with procurement, contract management and review, and vendor management.
• Experience with google suite.

Nice to have

• Experience with fresh service, asana, epoch programs

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

About the company

Databricks is a data and AI company. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, it provides a unified platform for organizations to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.