Sr. Engagement Manager-Public Sector

CSQ226R101

While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates located within the US on Eastern Time Zone will be considered.

The Sr. Engagement Manager works to establish a deeper partnership with Public Sector customers by creating a dedicated line of sight to successful architecture and use of the Databricks platform to achieve the best value for our customers. They aim to exceed customer satisfaction expectations throughout the life-cycle, from orchestrating the engagement to from vision to delivery and beyond.

The Sr. Engagement Manager ensures our customers are making the most value of our products and services by positioning, preparing the delivery and follow-up of our professional services and training engagements. You will be in a strategic and cross-functional position to partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Support and Product Teams on campaigns, programs, and content. You will report to the Professional Services Practice Leader for Public Sector

The Sr. Engagement Manager ensures our customers are making the most value of our products and services by positioning, preparing, managing the delivery and follow-up of our professional services and training engagements. This role is a strategic and cross-functional position that will partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Support and Product Teams on campaigns, programs, and content.

The impact you will have:

• Collaborate with the sales counterparts, engaging 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.
• 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.
• Performs as the Engagement Manager in the assigned area with full accountability for meeting/exceeding Professional Services and Training bookings and revenue targets.
• Ability to articulate relevant customer success stories, services offerings, and metrics that demonstrate value to the customer.
• Consult with clients to understand and analyze engagement scope, requirements, time, cost and benefits. Responsible for estimating, scoping and developing the statement of work documents as necessary.
• Drive resolution of delivery challenges, address resource contentions, scoping issues and manage expectations.

What we look for:

• Minimum of 7-10 years running a Professional Services preferably supporting a Public Sector line of business.
• 10+ years 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 Executives as well as other stakeholders 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.
• Travel is required up to 50%, possibly more at peak times.
• Proven experience in estimating effort and scope for services.
• Outstanding communication and customer relationship skills.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base 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 utilizes 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. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

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, LinkedInandFacebook.

Benefits

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