Chief of Staff, Field Engineering

Chief of Staff, Field Engineering

About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic, technically curious and highly organized Chief of Staff to partner with the SVP of Field Engineering, a founder and senior executive leading a 3,000-person global organization at the forefront of a rapidly scaling tech company. This is a unique opportunity to sit at the center of the action—working side by side with a visionary leader, engaging directly with customers, and helping shape the priorities and execution of a world-class engineering organization.

In this role, you’ll gain unparalleled exposure to both the strategic and operational heartbeat of the business. You’ll help drive alignment across the leadership team, ensure key initiatives move forward, and bring insight from customer conversations back into the organization. This is a high-visibility position that will challenge you to operate with both precision and creativity, while offering a launchpad into future leadership opportunities in business operations, strategy, or beyond.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operational Rhythm: Drive the operating cadence of the Field Engineering organization, including staff meetings, all-hands, QBRs, goal-setting, and leadership offsites.
• Priority Execution: Track key initiatives, ensuring deliverables are clear, deadlines are met, and issues are escalated/resolved quickly.
• Leadership Team Effectiveness: Partner closely with the Field Engineering leadership team to ensure alignment, follow-through, and accountability on organizational goals.
• SVP Leverage: Work with the SVP and EA to ensure the SVP’s time is spent on the most critical and impactful activities; proactively identify and clear obstacles that would otherwise reach the SVP
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Serve as a connective tissue between Field Engineering and other functions (e.g., Product, Sales, People, Finance), ensuring smooth collaboration and information flow.
• Special Projects: Lead ad hoc projects that require structured problem-solving, coordination across teams, and tight execution.
• Strategic Thought Partnership: Serve as a sounding board to the SVP on organizational priorities, helping to synthesize input, test ideas, and shape initiatives.
• Customer Engagement & Follow-Through: Regularly attend customer and partner meetings alongside the SVP and leadership team to stay close to external priorities, ensure commitments are tracked and followed up on, and maintain a strong and credible presence with customers and other external stakeholders.
• Communications & Materials: Draft and coordinate internal communications on behalf of the SVP of Field Engineering and cross-functional partners, as well as create high-quality materials such as board decks, executive presentations, and updates for cross-functional partners.

What We’re Looking For

• 6–10 years of experience in business operations, program management, or chief of staff–type roles in fast-paced, complex organizations.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, drive clarity, and maintain momentum.
• Technical curiosity with a solid understanding of the data and AI space; able to quickly learn and engage with concepts relevant to Databricks’ platform and offerings.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to build trust quickly with senior leaders and keep cross-functional stakeholders aligned.
• High bias for action and problem-solving—comfortable rolling up sleeves and driving outcomes.
• Experience with large, distributed, or customer-facing organizations is a plus.
• Comfort with ambiguity, ability to bring structure, and a track record of getting things done.

Why Join

This is a high-visibility, high-impact role at the center of a large global Field Engineering organization. You’ll work closely with a founder-SVP and a seasoned leadership team, gaining exposure to strategic priorities and operational challenges across the company.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Zone 1 Pay Range

$142,100—$198,875 USD

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.

Benefits

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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.

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