Manager, Field Engineering Italy
- Your enthusiasm and creativity can energize the team and build a motivated, collaborative culture.
- You are skilled at communicating complex ideas in an engaging way, useful for value-based selling.
- But managing a team in a structured, sales-driven environment with tight targets may feel confining.
- You may struggle with the detailed process implementation and analytical assessment of team performance.
- Sustaining focus on long-term revenue strategies and building deep corporate relationships can be difficult for your more spontaneous nature.
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Note: Location for the role is in Milan (i.e. within commutable distance).
As a Field Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects and Solutions Engineers in Italy. Your experience partnering with the sales organization will help drive revenue with the right approach whilst coaching sales and pre-sales teams to work together.
You will guide and get involved to enhance your team's effectiveness; be an expert at communicating complex, business value-focused solutions, support complex sales cycles, and build relationships with important partners in large corporations.
The impact you will have:
- Hire, mentor and grow the pre-sales team in Italy
- Build a motivated collaborative culture within a hyper-growth team to embody and promote Databricks customer-obsessed, teamwork and diverse culture
- Support increased return on investment of SA involvement in sales cycles
- Ensure a solution and value-based selling within the field-engineering organization
- Display an understanding of needs and revenue potential for accounts in the assigned region
- Engage with key customer executives to build and strengthen strategic partnerships
- Ensure close alignment with partners and internal services to secure implementation strategies within accounts
- Continue to build Databricks' brand as a member of the Leadership team in partnership with Marketing and Sales teams across the region
What we look for:
- Experience managing a team of successful Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS professionals
- Experience in consumption based business environments
- Have experience mentoring and scaling technical teams
- Success in instituting processes for technical field members to lead efficiency and product focus
- Ability to partner and collaborate with Sales and other cross-functional leaders
- Passionate about data and AI market and Cloud software models and being able to deliver a strong POV on the value of Databricks solutions
- Technical or consulting background either in Data Engineering, Database technologies or Data Science
- Strong communication skills. Italian native-speaker and fluent in English.
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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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