Senior Manager, Field Engineering; Pre-Sales

Senior Manager, Field Engineering (Pre-Sales) – Amsterdam, Netherlands

At Databricks, our core values are at the heart of everything we do. Creating a culture of proactiveness and a customer‑centric mindset guides us to create a unified platform that makes data science and analytics accessible to everyone. We aim to inspire our customers to make informed decisions that push their business forward. We provide a user-friendly and intuitive platform that makes it easy to turn insights into action and fosters a culture of creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

• Manage an existing and growing pre‑sales team in the Netherlands; hiring, mentoring, and developing the team.
• Build a motivated, collaborative culture within a hyper‑growth team to embody and promote Databricks customer‑obsessed, teamwork and diverse culture
• Support increased return on investment of SA involvement in sales cycles
• Ensure a solution and value‑based selling within the field‑engineering organisation
• Display an understanding of needs and revenue potential for accounts in the assigned region
• Engage with key customer executives to build and strengthen strategic partnerships
• Ensure close alignment with partners and internal services to secure implementation strategies within accounts
• Continue to build Databricks' brand in partnership with the Leadership team, Marketing and Sales teams across the region.

• Seasoned people management experience, leading teams of successful Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS professionals
• Experience mentoring and scaling technical teams; developing teams to operate in a fungible, interchangeable capacity across a region will be advantageous
• Success in instituting processes for technical field members to drive efficiency and product focus
• Experience in working with or selling to large and complex organisations
• Ability to partner and collaborate with Sales and other cross‑functional leaders
• Technical or consulting background with proximity to Cloud and Data/AI technologies.
• Passionate about the Data and AI ecosystem and and able to deliver a strong POV on the value proposition of Databricks in the market.
• Strong communication skills and executive presence to influence and partner effectively with C‑level stakeholders.

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Location for the role is in Amsterdam (i.e. within commutable distance for a hybrid schedule)

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.

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