# Program Manager, Public Sector (Commercial Legal)

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Washington, D.C.
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,000-$181,500 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

As a Program Manager for Public Sector in Commercial Legal at Databricks, you will own the contracting engine for one of the fastest-growing segments of the business: US and international public-sector deals.

You will act as the operational backbone for the public-sector contracting function, working in close coordination with Public Sector legal, sales, operations, product, engineering, finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

- Own the Public Sector Contracting Program: Act as the central driver for US public-sector contracting operations (US Federal/Defense, Defense Industrial Base, and SLED), plus Canada and priority overseas markets.

- Drive Cross-Functional Deal Execution: Coordinate stakeholders, including sales, deal desk, operations, security, compliance, and finance through a predictable, well-governed pipeline.

- Manage Pubsec Contracts and Contract Lifecycle: Manage Databricks' pubsec schedules, including our GSA MAS and similar vehicles.

- Build Enablement: Create enablement for Legal and GTM teams so that routine matters can be handled at scale with minimal legal involvement.

- Strengthen Post-Award Obligation Management: Own (in collaboration with Compliance) traceability for non-standard contractual commitments.

- Scale Internationally: Develop and govern contracting programs for priority international markets.

- Drive Continuous Improvement: Constantly audit the status quo to support increasing scale and anticipate future needs.

- Handle Routine Contracting Matters: Support deal flow for initial triage and routine matters under attorney supervision.

Requirements:

- Government Contracting Substance: 6+ years in government contracts, public procurement, or contract administration at a technology company.

- Partner/channel Experience: Prior work with various channel contracting structures.

- SaaS & Cloud Contracting Fluency: Experience with subscription/consumption-based SaaS agreements.

- Builder Mentality: Demonstrated ability to build contracting operations from scratch.

- A Bias for Action: Anticipate and proactively uncover issues and blockers.

- Interdependence without Authority: Thrive in matrixed, highly interdependent operations.

- Balanced Emotional Intelligence and Mission-Focus: Proven ability to display grace under pressure and hold others accountable.

- AI Tools & Systems: Proficiency in leveraging AI tools to optimize legal or contracting operations.

- International Experience Welcomed: Experience with multi-jurisdictional government procurement and foreign language skills are a plus.

Benefits: Databricks offers comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees.

## Skills

### Required
- government contracts
- public procurement
- contract administration
- SaaS agreements
- cloud contracting
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- PMP
- NCMA certifications
- foreign language skills

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