Staff Technical Instructor
- Your natural ability to inspire others makes you a powerful mentor for training partner instructors.
- You excel at presenting to senior stakeholders, building rapport, and influencing training decisions.
- Your empathy ensures tailored coaching that meets each instructor's unique needs and learning style.
- Data-driven decisions for improvement may feel secondary to your focus on human connections.
- The senior individual contributor role lacks the team leadership you thrive on, leaving you wanting more authority.
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About the role
Databricks Learning & Enablement trains customers, partners, and Databricks employees on the Data Intelligence Platform. As a Staff Technical Instructor, you deliver our most strategic technical training and set the instructional quality bar for a global community of instructors and training partners. You partner with curriculum, operations, and account teams to translate real-world delivery experience into better courses, stronger instructors, and measurable learner outcomes.
This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Global Delivery Excellence. You are a thought partner to Senior Director+ stakeholders on training delivery.
What you will do
- Lead associate- and professional-level instructor-led training across most of the Databricks catalog, virtual and in person, including tailored programs for strategic customers and large-scale events such as Data + AI Summit.
- Partner with curriculum teams on new course development and curriculum revamps so content reflects real delivery needs.
- Mentor Databricks Certified Instructors training partner instructors globally with timely, candid, actionable feedback.
- Use CSAT, NPS, and skill-progression data to identify and implement improvements in learner outcomes, instructor operations, tooling, and scheduling.
- Advise delivery leadership and account-facing teams on training plans, priorities, and emerging trends.
- Build AI-based tools to evolve training delivery readiness and in-class experiences.
What we look for
- Deep subject-matter expertise in at least one Databricks domain: Data Engineering, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, or Generative AI
- Most Databricks certifications completed, at both associate and professional levels
- Hands-on proficiency with the Databricks workspace, Databricks SQL, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Lakeflow Jobs, Git folders, and Unity Catalog
- A track record of influencing training products, delivery processes, or tooling beyond your own classroom
- Experience mentoring and tailoring your coaching style to the individual
- Comfort presenting to and advising senior technical and business stakeholders
- Continuous study of industry trends and active investment in depth across additional technical domains
- Hands-on experience using AI to speed up course preparation, demo building, or delivery operations
Preferred qualifications
- ~8+ years in technical instruction, solutions architecture, data engineering, or data science, including ~4+ years delivering technical training to enterprise audiences
- Experience as a lead instructor or curriculum contributor for a technical course
- Experience designing or running train-the-trainer programs
- Experience running large-scale or event-based training programs
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
Benefits
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Compliance
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Best personality fits for this role
Natural leadership drives you to set the instructional quality bar and influence delivery processes globally.
Read the ENTJ career guide →Your strategic mindset helps you advise senior leadership on training priorities and emerging trends effectively.
Read the INTJ career guide →Your ability to think on your feet makes you excellent at delivering training and adapting to live classroom needs.
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