Director, Event Techology

You will lead and continue to build a high-performing event technology team and systems that make Databricks Corporate Events reliable, secure, and scalable.

Responsibilities:

• Sustain and strengthen a high-performing event technology organisation with clear structure, career paths, leadership capacity, and staffing plans aligned to a growing global event portfolio.
• Own and advance a prioritised, multi-year event technology roadmap aligned with marketing leadership across Data + AI Summit, Data + AI World Tour, AI Days, executive programs, and field events.
• Keep a complex event technology ecosystem launch-ready, reliable, and scalable across registration, event management, mobile apps, meetings, content, check-in and badging, signage, streaming, onsite AV, production, network, and IT.
• Govern secure and compliant handling of attendee and event data by ensuring required security, privacy, legal, vendor-risk, data-protection, and music-rights requirements are resolved before platforms or content go live.
• Strengthen and steward a trusted event data foundation that connects registration, attendance, and engagement data with Salesforce, Marketo, the Databricks platform, and reporting partners.
• Optimise the financial and operational performance of the event technology portfolio through disciplined budget stewardship, vendor strategy, sourcing, contracts, procurement, and multi-year SaaS negotiations.
• Reinforce consistent ways of working across programs,including requirements, intake, prioritisation, testing, UAT, documentation, and retrospectives,so teams deliver repeatable, predictable event experiences.
• Expand safe, responsible AI and agent-based automation across event technology operations to reduce manual work and improve speed and quality.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in event technology, corporate events, or marketing technology, including 5+ years leading and developing full-time and contract teams.
• A demonstrated record of leading and evolving an established organisation, developing strong leaders, delegating meaningful ownership, and building an accountable, high-trust team culture.
• Experience owning event technology strategy and delivery for a flagship conference with 35,000+ in-person attendees and a multi-city global event series.
• Broad, credible experience across enterprise event management, mobile apps, meetings, check-in and badging, signage, streaming, onsite AV, production, network, and IT.
• Experience stewarding event data layers, pipelines, warehousing or lakehouse concepts, tables, data structures, and integrations with marketing and sales systems.
• Experience managing music-rights licensing and compliance for live and broadcast events, as well as multi-million-dollar technology budgets and vendor portfolios.

Pay Range Transparency: The pay range for this role is: Zone 1 Pay Range $221,800-$305,050 USD Zone 2 Pay Range $199,700-$274,550 USD Zone 3 Pay Range $188,600-$259,250 USD Zone 4 Pay Range $177,400-$244,000 USD