About the company
At Databricks, our mission is to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems and that starts with empowering our own employees. The Databricks IT organization is a product-led team that builds intelligent, scalable systems to make every Brickster’s workday simpler, faster, and more connected. We’re reimagining how employees and managers interact with internal tools; designing a unified, AI-driven experience that integrates data, insights, and workflows across the company.
Responsibilities
- Own the Zero-to-One Vision: Define and evolve the long-term strategy for the unified employee and manager experience, specifically focusing on advanced agentic workflows and automation tailored to the People function.
- Drive Product Strategy & Automation: Partner closely with developers, engineering teams, and stakeholders across People Operations and IT to design, build, and deploy intelligent agentic automation workflows on the Databricks platform.
- Domain Leadership: Serve as the primary product leader specializing in talent acquisition, hiring processes, and performance management workflows, transforming standard internal tools into highly optimized, automated experiences.
- Execute and Measure: Define success metrics (adoption, efficiency, engagement, automation accuracy) and use data-driven insights to guide rapid iteration and development within an evolving field.
- Influence and Collaborate: Report directly to VP of Product in IT and work cross-functionally to align engineering, design, and senior leadership around the automated product vision, evangelizing the roadmap in company-wide productivity and AI discussions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, with a proven track record leading specialized, highly technical, or zero-to-one enterprise and internal product initiatives.
- Specialist Domain Expertise: Deep background in human resources and people-process functions, specifically with concrete experience in hiring, talent acquisition, employee experience and performance management.
- Agentic Automation & Advanced AI: Hands-on experience or a strong technical understanding of agentic automation, LLM orchestration, and modern AI-driven workflows to streamline operational bottlenecks.
- Strategic & Product Thought Leadership: Demonstrated ability to own a product domain end-to-end, linking automation outcomes directly to corporate scaling and employee experience goals.
- Technical & Data Fluency: Strong understanding of building on advanced data platforms, user-centered design, data-informed development, and modern enterprise governance practices (e.g., RBAC/ABAC).
- Ambiguity Champion: Highly comfortable leading through extreme ambiguity, managing complex stakeholder landscapes, and collaborating directly with engineering pods to build applications from scratch.
Conditions
- Pay Range: $145,000 — $199,300 USD (Zone 1).