Director, Paid Media

The role

You will lead the global media planning function to support brand awareness, demand generation, and pipeline growth. You will manage a team of global media planners to develop audience-first and account-focused strategies.

What you will do

• Guide the development of cross-channel media strategies.
• Build and scale a global media strategy organization by hiring and developing talent.
• Create an environment of continuous learning with coaching and growth opportunities.
• Establish and scale global media planning frameworks, processes, and best practices.
• Align media investment strategy and budget allocation to business goals.
• Ensure media strategies are grounded in audience insights and aligned to personas.
• Implement consistent global measurement frameworks and executive-ready reporting.
• Model and reinforce Databricks culture principles through a test-and-learn agenda.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in media strategy, digital marketing, or integrated marketing in a B2B environment within SaaS or enterprise technology.
• Proven experience leading global media planning efforts across multiple channels and funnel stages.
• Demonstrated experience hiring, developing, and managing teams of individual contributors.
• Strong understanding of full-funnel marketing measurement, including brand, demand, pipeline, and revenue metrics.
• Ability to set clear objectives, prioritize effectively, and empower teams.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills with experience driving alignment across matrixed organizations.
• Excellent analytical skills to translate complex data into strategic recommendations.
• Familiarity with modern media platforms, AdTech, and measurement tools.

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

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.