Databricks · 1 week ago
Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - GenAI
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$202K/yr - $269K/yr
10+ years expDatabricks is a leading data and AI company that helps organizations unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI. In this role as a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager in the GenAI team, you will lead the delivery of innovative GenAI products, ensuring they scale effectively and meet customer needs. You will be responsible for driving cross-functional execution, managing product launches, and leveraging automation to enhance operations.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Lead cross-functional execution of high-visibility GenAI features
Navigate complex technical challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and product requirements
Design and implement processes that enable our platform to serve at scale
Partner with field teams, solution architects, customer success, marketing and other XFN teams to drive enterprise adoption of our GenAI offerings
Define adoption metrics and success criteria to manage early access programs
Build customer feedback loops and ensure smooth production rollouts
Partner with PM and Engineering leaders to translate customer needs into technical requirements
Ensure our GenAI platform delivers both cutting-edge capabilities and enterprise-grade reliability
Leverage automation and GenAI tools to scale the team’s operations and support rapid experimentation and deployment of emerging AI technologies
Qualification
Required
10+ years driving high-complexity, business-critical technical programs across ML/AI, large-scale distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure
Proven ability to own an entire program area end-to-end, scaling it from 0→1 or evolving it to the next stage of adoption, with direct measurable business impact
Excellence in structuring and driving clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, shaping strategy with engineering and product leaders, and aligning across multiple teams/orgs
Track record of leading large scale cross-functional programs, proactively surfacing risks, creating new processes, and ensuring on-time delivery of critical launches
Strong executive communication skills: concise written and verbal updates, ability to facilitate alignment across VPs/Directors, and polished presentations to senior leadership
Expertise in data-driven decision making: defining success metrics, building dashboards, and using SQL/Python/notebooks to ground decisions in analysis
Ability to act as a force multiplier: mentoring other TPMs, introducing scalable processes, and driving organizational efficiency at the company level
Proactively leverages GenAI tools and automation to simplify workflows, scale execution, and increase organizational impact
Preferred
Experience with LLM deployment, ML infrastructure, GPU capacity planning, and large-scale serving architectures
Background in vector databases, distributed training frameworks, and production ML pipelines
Familiarity with Databricks ecosystem (Spark, MLflow, Lakehouse/Delta) or equivalent large-scale data/ML platforms
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Company
Databricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$25.81BKey Investors
Counterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
2025-01-13Debt Financing· $5.25B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
David Conte
Chief Financial Officer
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