Director, Technical MarketingActive$240K

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The opportunity

As the Director of Technical Marketing at Databricks, you will lead and scale the team responsible for explaining Databricks products, and what you can do with them, at scale to technical buyers and practitioners (from data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to…

What you'll do

  • Assess the current TMM team's strengths, gaps, and capacity; establish a: clear operating model with defined ownership areas (product coverage, content types, GEO) and a quarterly planning cadence.

  • Own and deliver the technical content agenda for Data + AI World Tour and/or: the next major Tier 1 event, achieving ≥4.5/5.0 average session ratings and measurable pipeline contribution.

  • Launch or significantly expand at least 2 new outbound evangelism motions: (e.g., a YouTube series architecture, a technical social media cadence, or a creator/influencer engagement program) that grow Databricks' external technical reach by ≥25%.

  • Build an AI-powered publishing engine that enables the TMM team to scale: content faster, leveraging AI assistance for content creation and publishing.

  • Establish yourself as a credible external technical voice, publishing 3+: original technical pieces (blogs, videos, or talks) and representing Databricks at 2+ external events or podcasts.

  • Scale the TMM team to meet growing demand across an expanding set of: technical personas (solutions architects, platform engineers, security teams, data scientists, analysts, app developers) driven by the 2026+ product surface (Lakebase, Genie, Lakewatch, Agent Bricks, Omnigent).

What they're looking for

  • Work with Databricks Field Engineering and FDE (Forward-Deployed Engineering): to capture repeatable product use cases into a Solutions Library, building a motion to scale capture and marketing of these use cases for learning across the entire community.
  • Build and operationalize a "1 launch → many assets" content engine that: converts every major product launch into persona-specific learning journeys (demos, workshops, blogs, videos, social).
  • Grow Databricks' YouTube and social technical content reach by 2x, with a: series-based content architecture targeting key personas at multiple depth levels.
  • Drive measurable contribution to AEO/GEO (Generative Engine Optimization): ensuring Databricks is cited by default in AI answer engines for key buyer questions.