Sr. Field Technical Program Manager
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Databricks is seeking a Sr. Field Technical Program Manager for a full-time onsite role in Auckland. You will join the Forward Deployed Engineering team to accelerate customer outcomes by delivering complex big data and AI projects while balancing delivery with the professional services business. You will own commercial delivery across concurrent engagements in ASEAN and Greater China, from small 2 to 3 week engagements to multi-month, multi-person programs, defining scope, managing risk, enforcing reporting, and overseeing financials to drive adoption. The ideal candidate has 4+ years leading enterprise big data projects with teams up to five and contracts over $0.5M, global deployments, agile, PMI or PRINCE, strong communication and mentoring, initiative, and a willingness to travel. To apply, tailor your resume to show cross-functional leadership, budget control, and measurable impact on customer outcomes, and highlight experience with large-scale deployments and data analytics platforms.
At Databricks we work on some of the most complex distributed processing and machine learning problems in the world and our customers challenge us with interesting new big data and AI use cases. You will shape the future big data and the machine learning landscape for leading Fortune 500 organizations.
Field Technical Project Managers accomplish the mission of the FDE team, which is to accelerate and de-risk our customers' outcome through improved project success. Whilst maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction project managers balance delivery responsibilities with the commercial goals of the professional services organization. You will report to the Sr Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering.
The impact you will have:
- You will take ownership of all commercial delivery of services from a project administration and director perspective across numerous concurrent projects in Asean and Greater China Region ranging from a single individual for 2-3 weeks to 6 months engagements of multi-person teams
- You will define, manage, scope and mitigate risk across projects including enforcing project reporting, milestone tracking and financial management of engagements to accelerate our customers success adoption and their associated outcomes.
- Work with the account management and customer teams to complete handover from sales to delivery teams
- Work with the account management team to ensure accurate reporting on projects and keeping all relevant parties up-to-date with project activity and success
What we look for:
- Individuals who excel in a high paced environment working with cross-functional teams on multiple customer engagements often concurrently.
- 4+ years experience successfully managing and overseeing big data projects with teams of up to 5 people with contract values in excess of $0.5 million
- Experience in managing enterprise scale projects, with global deployments ideally within the big data and analytics industry domain
- Experience of industry project management techniques including agile project delivery ideally with PMI/PRINCE/AGILE certification
- Good communication and analytical skills with ability to mentor team members to achieve success.
- Initiative, determination and a high degree of resourcefulness
- Strong commercial focus and will have managed both T&M and Fixed Price project engagements
- Travel expected across the region
About Databricks
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. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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