Your work will help IT and security administrators feel at ease with increasing Databricks usage in their organization. Our data champions will benefit from the data security and operational simplicity you provide, to ensure that they can focus their time on creating most value for their users.

The impact you will have:

• Make security a market differentiator that enables Databricks to succeed in enterprise and regulated industries.
• Help Databricks gain the trust of CSO teams of security sensitive customers and qualify the Lakehouse platform for all data classes in the customer organization.
• Build a vision for a best-in-class network and data security policy model that provides secure access to customer workloads and data while minimizing exposure to unauthorized access and risk of data loss.
• Partner with privacy, legal, and security teams to deliver anonymization, retention, and residency for regulated data and sensitive assets such as AI models.
• Deepen our understanding of evolving threats and corresponding technologies in data security. Use customer inputs to serve as an expert and propose new innovations or best practices from the industry.
• Partner with cloud providers and support confidential compute - Rationalize and refine the differences in customer experience and data security technologies across multiple clouds including Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.

What we look for:

• 7+ years of product management experience with enterprise B2B or SaaS products, with experience delivering successful customer-facing products/features.
• Domain expertise in data security, data privacy, and encryption
• An accomplished senior product manager who can define and deliver on success metrics, summarize customer inputs into actionable requirements, and crisply communicate product value propositions to customers and sales teams.
• Experience partnering with senior engineering leadership with an ability to deep-dive into complex technical concepts.
• Experience driving business results through influential leadership across multiple partner teams including engineering, sales, marketing, solution architects and customer success.
• Passion for designing products that simplify user experience of technically complex products.

Pay Range Transparency Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above.

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What we're all about.

Our DATA values—Determination, Ambition, Teamwork, Accountability—aren't just operating principles, they're our competitive advantage. We bring context to every decision with a category-defining Decision Intelligence platform, and our partner ecosystem is the multiplier.

As VP, Partner Engineering, you will lead the technical vision, execution, and team required to scale partner-built and partner-delivered solutions across the world's most strategic technology and consulting landscapes.

Make Every Decision Count with Context

The opportunity.

Reporting to the SVP Global Alliances, the VP, Partner Engineering is the executive accountable for setting the Partner Engineering strategy to transform our partner ecosystem into a best-in-class technical delivery engine that expands consumption, accelerates CoSell and Channel revenue, and drives production deployments with repeatability and governance discipline.

This role will include:

• Developing, executing and leading the Partner Engineering strategy to deliver non-linear revenue growth via the Ecosystem
• Technical leadership of partner architecture
• Management of Partner Solution Architects as Player Coach i.e. Lead by example
• Execution of joint solution engineering with hyperscalers, industry ISV’s & GSIs
• Executive engagement and business impact through ecosystem consumption & marketplace ARR

What you'll be doing.

• Set the global Partner Engineering strategy and architecture standards aligned to cloud marketplaces, consumption incentives, and AI/data collaborations.
• Lead co-innovation blueprints and quick starts integrating our platform with the likes of Microsoft Azure, GCP, AWS, Databricks, Guidewire style decision systems, and GSI solution frameworks.
• Personally sponsor and govern the reference architecture, connector strategy, AI/data interop strategy, and workload optimization patterns for partner solutions.
• Create enterprise-grade integration frameworks and enforce architectural guardrails that accelerate deployment while minimizing partner/customer delivery risk.
• Partner with Product and R&D for cross function collaboration and alignment around roadmap and innovation
• Lead, mentor, and scale a global team of Partner Solution Architects focused on:

• Joint solution architecture
• Partner-led PoCs/PoVs
• Demo and sandbox platforms
• Deployment acceleration
• Technical certifications and readiness

• Build an elite Partner Architecture Centre of Excellence that rivals top ecosystem engineering orgs in the industry.
• Define clear role expectations, capability uplift plans, and partner field alignment models for PSAs.
• Establish performance-driven culture anchored in partner adoption velocity, PoV win rate, demo adoption, deployment acceleration, and marketplace ARR.
• Partner with Field Alliances, Field Engineering and RVP’s to enable and ensure Ecosystem attribution
• Own hyperscaler and ISV technical partnership co-innovation roadmaps, ensuring:

• Marketplace-ready joint solutions
• Consumption and integration patterns tied to incentives
• Field delivery kits for PSA + partner sellers
• Hardened reference designs for repeatable pursuits

• Drive GSI partnerships into factory-style delivery motions, launching industry solutions and field-ready plays with global systems integrators.
• Govern multi-party architecture risk, security, deployment patterns, rapid time-to-value, and executive sponsor checkpoints.
• Be the Evangelist for Ecosystem opportunities and own the hypothesis qualification for embedded or OEM, co-developed offerings and new pursuits
• Working closely with Product, define our ecosystem’s technical differentiation narrative—anchored in decision context, AI/data intelligence, workflows, and enterprise integration depth—against point solutions and platform incumbents.
• Ensure PSAs and partners can articulate why our platform wins architecturally, commercially, and operationally.

Requirements

What you'll bring.

• Proven executive leadership building partner engineering teams within enterprise software ecosystems
• Deep technical fluency in data platforms, AI/ML, analytics, cloud integration patterns, connectors, workflow systems and marketplace consumption architectures.
• Experience launching production-hardened joint solutions with hyperscalers and GSIs with measurable revenue and deployment outcomes.
• Ability to translate platform capability into partner-owned architectures that scale across customer estates.
• Practitioner’s mindset for governance of PoVs, partner certifications, deployment velocity, risk mitigation, and technical adoption KPIs
• Extensive experience in senior partner engineering, sales engineering or ecosystem technical leadership within large-scale enterprise software or SaaS companies.
• Excellent experience of managing architect/engineering-focused partner teams, PSAs, and global technical enablement functions.
• Demonstrated success driving multi-cloud partner consumption ARR, joint solution launches, and co-sell acceleration.
• Executive communication credibility with partner CTO/CIO/VP engineering stakeholders and hyperscaler/GSI technical leaders.
• Comfort operating across legal, sales, product, security, presales, and partner delivery functions.
• Willingness to travel globally (>40%).

Benefits

Our perks and quirks.

What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits.

We know that just having an excellent glass door rating isn’t enough, so we’ve put together a competitive package as a way of saying thank you for all your hard work and dedication.

We offer:

Competitive salary Company bonus Flexible working hours in a hybrid workplace & free access to global WeWork locations & events Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%) 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off! Work from Anywhere Scheme: Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period Family: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave Health & Wellbeing: Private Healthcare, EAP, Well-being Days, Calm App, Gym Discounts Team's Social Budget & Company-wide Summer & Winter Parties Tech & Cycle-to-Work Schemes Volunteer Day off Dog-friendly Offices

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