Req: CSQ427R98 Location: Tokyo, Japan
The Engagement Manager assures customer success by driving customer satisfaction throughout the customer success & services life-cycle for our customers, from orchestrating the engagement to successful delivery and beyond.
As an Engagement Manager, you will ensure that our customers are making the most value of our products and services by positioning, preparing, managing the delivery and follow-up of our professional services and training engagements. This role is a strategic and cross-functional position that will partner closely with Sales, Field Engineering, Support and Product Teams on campaigns, programs, and content. You will report to the Director, Professional Services.
The impact you will have:
- Demonstrate a passion for the job and lead by example by putting Databricks and our customers first to achieve the sales and delivery mission
- Collaborate with the sales counterpart and engage early in the sales process to seek to understand our customers' needs, their business, how success is defined, and ensure that we are exceeding expectations in delivery and developing valued solutions
- Identify opportunities for new services by understanding and addressing potential new use cases and the ability to articulate the business value in the upsell, or extension of services
- Performs as the Engagement Manager in the assigned area with full accountability for meeting/exceeding Professional Services and Training bookings and revenue targets
- Ability to articulate relevant customer success stories, services offerings, and metrics that demonstrate value to the customer
- Consult with clients to understand and analyze engagement scope, requirements, time, cost and benefits. Responsible for estimating, scoping and developing the statement of work documents as necessary
- Drive resolution of delivery challenges, address resource contentions, scoping issues and manage expectations
What we look for:
- Strong fundamental knowledge around end-to-end data systems Implementation from both the technology, operations, and security/governance lenses. Production-level implementation experience as an engineer or as a project manager is preferred
- Proven experience in the following
- Strong problem solving skill about customer’s pain points by using modern technologies, particularly AI agents
- Excellence in presentation skills, providing proposals that enforce good project governance and drive scalable delivery practices to both internal and external executives
- High-level orchestration skills to align both internal and external stakeholders when proposing large initiatives
- Strong service delivery and program management skills with the ability to synthesize customer success outcomes into well-structured program plans that deliver against such outcomes
- Prior experience in project/program proposal to customers at Consulting, SI, Software/Cloud Vendor is highly preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related educational background
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Japanese
- Excellent written communication skills in English
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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