Sr. Engagement Manager

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Sydney, Australia · Professional Services Operations

This role focuses on helping customers adopt and derive value from the Databricks platform, which includes data, analytics, and AI. The Engagement Manager will manage professional services and training engagements, collaborate with sales and product teams, and ensure customer success through effective delivery and solutioning. While the platform involves AI, this role is customer-facing and focused on service delivery and adoption, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Demonstrate a passion for the job and lead by example by putting Databricks and our customers first to achieve the sales and delivery mission
  2. Collaborate with the sales counterpart and engages early in the sales process to seek to understand our customer's needs, their business, how success is defined, and ensure that we are exceeding expectations in delivery and developing valued solutions
  3. 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
  4. Develop commercial models including leveraging Databricks and Partner investment vehicles to help address our customer budgetary constraints for success.
  5. Performs as the Engagement Manager in the assigned area with full accountability for meeting/exceeding Professional Services and Training KPIs.

Skills

Required

  • Customer engagement
  • Professional services delivery
  • Training delivery
  • Sales collaboration
  • Program management
  • Project governance
  • Scoping and estimation
  • Customer relationship management
  • Business value articulation
  • Commercial modeling

Nice to have

  • Data and AI domain knowledge
  • Experience with Databricks platform

What the JD emphasized

  • Data and AI domain knowledge and experience working with customers to realise business value through to production implementations
  • Proven experience in senior customer-facing roles that require a mix of influencing, validating, negotiating, understanding and execution
  • Excellent customer-facing skills and the ability to communicate with and develop strong relationships at all levels including with senior executives both internally and externally
  • Consistent track record of identifying customer needs and successfully implementing solutions
  • Demonstrate strong leadership experience, the ability to enforce good project governance and drive delivery excellence
  • 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
  • Proven experience in estimating effort and scope for services
  • Proven experience in meeting and achieving KPI and targets including CSAT, Bookings and Revenue.