# Sr. Manager, AI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $211,800-$291,300 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

We are looking for a world-class leader to lead and grow our AI FDE team. As a Sr. Manager, AI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), you will lead customers on their AI/ML transformation with Databricks, push the boundaries of our product, recruit and develop top data scientists/machine learning engineers, and manage a portfolio of key accounts.

In this role, you will:

- Lead and scale a world-class AI/ML professional services team, including hiring, mentoring, and building a team structure to support long-term growth and execution at scale.

- Develop and expand executive relationships with key customers and partners, acting as a trusted advisor during complex technical engagements and AI transformations.

- Align with Field Engineering and Sales Leaders to define joint strategies for strategic accounts and ensure strong delivery coordination across functions.

- Lead strategic AI PS initiatives, practice development, and standardized delivery processes; design scalable engagement models and reusable solutions for repeatability across the global team.

- Shape cross-functional collaboration by influencing Product, R&D, and GTM,ensuring voice-of-customer insights and delivery learnings help inform the product roadmap and GTM strategy.

- Own OKRs for AI-services led accounts, revenue, utilization, and public references.

- Represent Databricks as a thought leader in AI/ML.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing, hiring, and building a team of high-performing data scientists/ML engineers and leaders, with a track record of scaling organizations through developing scalable processes and cultivating leaders.

## Skills

### Required
- Machine Learning
- GenAI
- Data Science
- Cloud Computing
- Leadership
- Team Management
- Strategic Planning
- Cross-Functional Collaboration

### Nice to have
- Databricks
- Apache Spark
- Delta Lake
- MLflow

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