Sr. Deployment Strategist, FDE - Financial Services
Databricks is a data and AI platform that lets organizations build analytics, AI agents, and applications on a unified, governed lakehouse.
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About Databricks
Data engineers, analysts, and AI teams use Databricks to process large datasets, build reliable pipelines, and train models on a single governed platform. Users can run SQL analytics, serve ML predictions in real time, and deploy AI agents grounded in enterprise data. Its open lakehouse architecture provides consistent security and governance across analytical and operational workloads.
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About the Role
You will act as the product manager for the customer's problem, bridging multi-million-dollar business needs and Databricks' technical solutions. You will run deep discovery with C-suite stakeholders, define the pilot MVP, write the PRD, and guide FDE engineers through agile delivery. You will lead architecture reviews, own production readiness and launch, and then plan handoff and identify the next engagement.
Requirements
- Strong executive presence and communication skills
- Product judgment and agile delivery experience
- Understanding of modern data and AI architectures
- Proficiency in at least one language such as Python, Java or SQL
- Typically 7+ years delivering complex customer-facing data, analytics, AI or software engagements
- Experience delivering data, ML or GenAI systems into production
- Willingness to work onsite with customers (often 25-50%)
Responsibilities
- Partner with Sales on C-suite discovery and quantify business value
- Define pilot MVP, success criteria and timeline
- Author the PRD, prioritize the backlog, manage scope and QA test
- Drive the FDE build team through agile delivery
- Lead technical discovery and design reviews
- Own solution launch, production readiness and adoption
- Scope maintenance plans and create customer documentation and training
- Codify reusable solution patterns and feed insights back to Product and Engineering
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility