Sr. Deployment Strategist, FDE - Manufacturing & High-Tech

The role

You will act as a product manager for customer problems, bridging the gap between business problems and technical solutions. You will own the technical and product direction of engagements from discovery through production launch and adoption.

What you will do

• Partner with Sales to perform discovery and quantify business value
• Define the pilot, including MVP, success criteria, and timeline
• Author the PRD and prioritize the engineering backlog
• Manage project scope and act as primary hands-on QA tester
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Drive the FDE build team through an agile delivery process
• Lead technical discovery and design reviews
• Manage stakeholders from the C-suite to individual engineers
• Own the Day 0 launch and drive solution to full adoption
• Scope ongoing maintenance plans and create customer documentation

Required qualifications

• Strong executive presence and communication skills
• Ability to define what to build and why
• Ability to write product requirements and prioritize engineering work
• Ability to lead complex agile software projects
• Understanding of modern data and AI architectures
• Understanding of cloud platforms, data pipelines, and data models
• Understanding of distributed systems, APIs, security and governance
• Understanding of machine learning and generative AI application patterns
• Proficiency in at least one language such as Python, Java, or SQL
• 7+ years of experience delivering complex customer-facing data, analytics, AI, or software engagements, or equivalent experience as a founder or technical builder
• Experience delivering data, machine learning, or generative AI systems into production

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-growth technology company, forward-deployed organization, or leading consultancy

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.