Product Finance Director, R&D Capital Allocation & Engineering OperationsActive$224K
The opportunity
As Databricks scales at unprecedented velocity, how we invest our R&D capital—both human and compute—is critical to our scale. We are looking for a Product Finance leader to own R&D capital allocation and engineering operations.
What you'll do
Drive product-level ROI and R&D capital allocation
Establish frameworks to measure product-level ROI across a fast-moving: platform like Databricks where engineering velocity is extremely high.
Operationalize ROI metrics so they directly inform product investment and resource allocation decisions.
Define engineering economics in the AI era
Partner with Engineering to model how AI developer tooling and internal token: spend scale alongside headcount, quantifying the tradeoff between human capital and compute capital.
Measure the end-to-end cost of AI-enabled engineering, including the: second-order impact on cloud spend, and partner with Engineering to optimize investments.
What they're looking for
- Shape global workforce and location strategy
- Drive multi-year headcount planning across global engineering hubs, balancing: cost per hire, talent density, and university recruiting pipelines.
- Partner closely with Workplace and Facilities leadership to synchronize R&D: hiring roadmaps with global real estate strategy and multi-year CapEx planning.
- Scale R&D finance operations and build the team
