Proven experience building and leading technical pre-sales teams - hiring, on-boarding, coaching and mentoring those teams to mature and grow into highly capable individual operators as well as exceptional team-players
10+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big data, machine learning, or more recently with generative AI)
Trusted advisor to technical executives that guide strategic data infrastructure decisions
Lead a team through best practices for technical qualification, technical validations, architecture discussions, and product demonstrations
Establish and foster external partnerships with systems integrators (SIs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) that maximize and accelerate client success
Strong understanding of consumption-driven business models and the recipes for long term growth and success
Experience hiring candidates that continually raise the bar, ramping them up to be successful, and promoting into larger roles
Create a positive culture and morale for the team - fostering strong working relationships between Field Engineering, Sales, and other important internal cross-functional teams
Experience working cross-functionally with other teams such as Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success
Must be technical enough to earn the trust of Engineering talent and leadership at Databricks
Ability to influence and review complex architectures; guiding your team and customers towards ideal solutions - that scale