Pre-sales Manager Nordics - Digital Natives & Startups

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Stockholm, Sweden · Field Engineering - Other

This role is a Pre-sales Manager for Databricks in the Nordics, focusing on Digital Natives & Startups. The manager will lead a team of Solutions Architects who act as trusted advisors to customers, helping them identify and prioritize impactful use cases and drive Data and AI solutions from concept to production. The role requires strong technical leadership, team mentorship, customer engagement, and strategic thinking, with extensive experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture, networking, and IT development. The goal is to empower companies to innovate and grow using Databricks' platform.

What you'd actually do

  1. Technical Leadership:
  2. Team Leadership & Mentorship:
  3. Customer Engagement & Strategy:

Skills

Required

  • technical customer-facing role
  • managing C-level technical and business relationships
  • leading technical pre-sales teams
  • hire, develop, and manage technical teams
  • understanding of digital native business models
  • infrastructure architecture
  • database architecture
  • networking
  • IT development or consulting
  • lead technical teams
  • operational and strategic mindset
  • communication skills
  • presentation skills
  • negotiation skills
  • pre-sales activities
  • solution design
  • business value selling
  • interpersonal skills
  • English proficiency

Nice to have

  • knowledge of any Nordic language

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience in a technical customer-facing role
  • 2+ years of experience leading technical pre-sales teams
  • Extensive experience (often 5+ years) in infrastructure architecture, database architecture, networking, and IT development or consulting within software or internet industries.