Manager, Field Engineering - Strategic Digital Native Business

# Manager, Field Engineering - Strategic Digital Native Business Databricks San  Francisco, California Full-time $172,500 – $237,150 / yearAI tools:

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Manages and develops Solutions Architects serving large, fast-growing digital-native technology companies. The team supports customers across data, analytics, and AI workloads, while working with Sales, Product, Services, and Engineering on adoption and customer outcomes.
* Full-time
* On-site
* 4+ years in the data space; 3+ years leading technical custo### Skills and expertise

Databricks data warehousing big datacloud infrastructure machine learninganalyticsproofs of concept

Solutions Architecture### Key responsibilities
* Hire and develop Solutions Architects supporting digital-native customers’ data, analytics, and AI workloads.
* Coach the team on technical qualification, use cases, proofs of concept, and customer engagement.
* Coordinate with Sales, Product, Services, and Engineering to support customer outcomes.## How this job compares

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AI in this role:
Medium. The role uses AI tools and works with AI systems as a regular part of the job. The team guides customers across AI workloads and supports AI-native companies using the Databricks platform. The manager’s day-to-day focus is leading the team and customer engagements, not directly building or training models.## Full description

As the manager of the Digital Natives Solutions Architect (SA) team, you will focus on growing and developing a team of SAs, driving the adoption of the Databricks Platform at the largest, fastest-growing tech companies.

You'll be responsible for leading the team in establishing best practices throughout the full lifecycle of the customers' workloads. You will help each team member achieve success, productivity, and career growth. You will also represent Databricks as a technical leader with some of its most important customers.

This role will work in close collaboration with sales, services, product, and engineering to drive solutions and outcomes for these highly technical customers. You will utilize excellent communication skills to clearly explain and demonstrate complex solutions to both internal and external stakeholders.

This role will report to the leader of Solutions Architects for the Strategic Digital Native Business Unit focused on AI Native companies.

Responsibilities:
• Hire and develop a team of deeply technical Solutions Architects capable of guiding digital native customers across a wide range of data, analytical, and AI workloads.
• Adapt the SA team's skills and engagement model to match the needs of Digital native customers
• Consistently meet or exceed targets by making sure the SA team knows how to technically qualify workloads, identify important use cases, build proof of concepts, and establish themselves as trusted advisors throughout the customer life-cycle
• Travel to customer sites for executive sessions, technical workshops, and building relationships
• Establish relationships across internal organizations (engineering, product, services, sales, etc.) to ensure the success of the customers and team
• Stay current with emerging Data and AI trends in the digital native tech sector

What we look for:
• 4+ years of experience in the data space with a technical…