Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Strat Media
Application analysis
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Strat Media at Databricks is a forward deployed data & ai platform role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
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This Forward Deployed Engineer role centers on embedded customer delivery — discovery, prototyping, integration, and production rollout. Key signals from the listing: Senior scope.
About Databricks
Databricks sells a unified data platform to enterprises. Forward deployed engineers help customers migrate workloads and prove value on live data. The role is anchored in Los Angeles, California, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Strat Media
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Strat Media to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Databricks hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Prepare a 5-minute “week one on site” plan: who you would meet, what you would inspect in their stack, and what artifact you would deliver by day five.
- Show you can go from discovery notes → working integration → production checklist without needing a large internal team.
- This role is tied to Los Angeles, California — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Databricks
- Demonstrate Spark/SQL fluency with a concrete example — Databricks will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate enterprise stakeholder management with a concrete example — Databricks will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Strong candidates show they can whiteboard a lakehouse migration and then actually implement the first milestone.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on databricks.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
Req ID FEQ327R504
Title: Sr. Manager - Strat Media
While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered. The Databricks Field Engineering team activates and accelerates the value our customers get from their data and AI. Major media agencies, ad tech, and Data/Identity companies are leveraging the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to accelerate their data-driven strategies. Our team is hiring a dynamic Solution Architecture (SA) leader who intimately understands the Agencies ecosystem and how a modern data architecture is critical to advancing their Data & AI initiatives. Additionally, this SA leader will inspire their team of Solution Architects by translating their team's vision into a tangible and effective strategy in order to drive our customers’ data and AI experiences forward. The Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture, will help lead a team of SAs within Databricks’ Field Engineering team's Agency segment. Reporting to the Director, Field Engineering, you will lead and promote a dynamic team focusing on enterprise software, big data/analytics, data engineering, and data science. Leading the technical split-focused team (pre-sales, technical acumen, demonstrations), you will partner with Sales (and other Field Engineering technical segments) to increase revenue and help customers become wildly successful. You'll scale and maintain an outstanding Field Engineering team that operates efficiently to accelerate Databricks' market growth. The Agencies vertical sits at the intersection of data, AI, and advertising. You'll lead a team that works with some of the most data-intensive companies in the world, holding companies managing billions in media spend and influencing the broader buy and sell side ecosystem.