Databricks is looking for a top tier Technical Program Manager with a passion for process improvement and project management. You will focus on running end-to-end processes for the engineering org, process improvements focused on cost and lifecycle changes across products. You will be hands-on in the execution of large scale projects and work strategically on improving day to day operations. This role will report into the R&D Operations team, which is part of the engineering org.
The impact you will have:
- Deliver repeatable process with tools and automation per quarter, supporting the visibility of and improving engineering product operations
- Demonstrate and coordinate with engineering and finance teams to improve engineering costs
- Solve complex business problems by breaking them down into tangible steps to execute
- Be a pioneer of our Databricks Costa Rica office
- Enable cross-functional teams (Finance, Engineering team, etc.) to understand cost of cloud operations, overage and drive various engineering efficiency efforts
- What we're looking for:
- 5+ years of experience in technical program management, or PMO
- Solid experience with SQL-based database is required.
- Experience in program management desired
- Experience with collaboration tools such as Jira, Asana, etc.
- Experience working with teams to understand and document how a process works
- Proficiency with, project management tools required (Spreadsheets - can perform complex functions) )
- Expertise in working effectively and autonomously across multiple teams in situations of ambiguity, with only high-level direction
- Experience creating and managing programs related to services and support pricing
- Build scalable and repeatable project plans to help track the business quickly
- Create and publish dashboards to communicate effectively to the business the status of a project, risks, and milestones
- Influence accuracy and reportability of our products across all systems by building out comprehensive project plans that take dependencies into account
- Candidate must possess good English written and oral communication skills.
- Technical degree or the equivalent experience.
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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