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GAQ427R235
While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.
Databricks is seeking a Director, Strategic Programs & Operations, for the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) organization to lay the foundations and scale the CAO organization. Reporting directly to the Sr. Director, Finance Data and Strategy, this leader will serve as a strategic arm to CAO leadership. You will partner with teams across the CAO, including: Order to Revenue (Revenue Operations, Billing, Revenue Accounting, Revenue Assurance), Accounting, Payroll, Tax, Treasury, and Commissions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams such as IT, Engineering, Go-to-Market, FP&A, Pricing, and Sales Operations.
Planning, leading, and executing on global, cross-functional, enterprise-wide projects that impact the Finance organization should be your passion. The ability to plan and execute effectively while collaborating across teams and locations will be key to success in this role. In this role, you will remove friction for the Finance team by developing organization-wide standards, leading programs, including communications, reporting, and metrics, and driving technology improvements. You will manage a team of individuals across all CAO programs, leading massive, cross-functional initiatives that embed Data, AI, and modern ways of working into our core financial and accounting processes, while ensuring strict compliance and SOX controls.
The Impact You Will Have
- Strategic Advisor, Organization Strategy & Team Leadership: Serve as a key sounding board to CAO leadership while defining organization strategy, managing third-party consulting partners, and directing a team of individuals across all CAO programs to foster operational excellence.
- AI Enablement & Technology Modernization: Lead AI enablement and practical use case adoption throughout the CAO organization, while driving enterprise-level system implementations (including SAP) to automate workflows and enhance accounting operations.
- Program Management, Compliance & Governance: Own CAO OKRs, offsites, compliance frameworks, SOX alignment, and the overall program governance roadmap. Design and execute high-stakes, cross-functional programs across Accounting, FP&A, IT, Engineering, Product, and Go-to-Market.
- Commercialization Support & Cross-Functional Alignment: Provide strategic commercialization support across teams, ensuring global accounting processes and program management structures seamlessly align with new business models and scaling goals.
What We Look For
- Experience: 12+ years of progressive experience across accounting, business operations, organization strategy, and program management leadership, including proven experience managing third-party consulting engagements and ideally combining top-tier management consulting with in-house corporate leadership.
- Accounting, Compliance & Operational Expertise: Deep foundational knowledge of global accounting processes, financial controllership, regulatory compliance, and SOX requirements, paired with strong governance frameworks and a track record of managing cross-functional initiatives.
- System Implementations & SAP Experience: Extensive experience leading large-scale ERP and system implementations,
- AI Enablement & Tech Fluency: Demonstrated success championing AI enablement and practical use cases across an enterprise function, leveraging modern data platforms, automation, and predictive tools.
- Elite Executive Presence: Exceptional communication and presentation skills (Google Slides, Docs). Ability to command a room, influence senior executives, and distill complex financial transformations into clear, actionable strategies.
- GTM, and Finance, and deliver commercialization support within SaaS or high-tech enterprise environments.
- Expertise in program management, executive communications, reporting, and metrics
- Experience in implementing and managing SOX controls on both business process and IT sides
- Proficiency with JIRA, project management tools, and reporting systems
- SAP experience is a plus
- SaaS industry experience is a plus
- CPA certification is a plus
- SQL or Python experience is a plus
- Expert-level presentation skills, including the ability to develop impactful presentations using Google Slides
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.
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
Benefits
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.
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.
Compliance
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Skills Required
- 12+ years of progressive experience across accounting, business operations, organization strategy, and program management leadership
- Experience managing third-party consulting engagements
- Deep knowledge of global accounting processes, financial controllership, regulatory compliance, and SOX requirements
- Experience establishing governance frameworks and managing cross-functional initiatives
- Extensive experience leading large-scale ERP and system implementations
- Demonstrated success enabling AI use cases across an enterprise function
- Experience leveraging modern data platforms, automation, and predictive tools
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills using Google Slides and Google Docs
- Ability to influence senior executives and communicate complex financial transformations clearly
- Experience supporting go-to-market and finance commercialization in SaaS or high-tech enterprise environments
- Expertise in program management, executive communications, reporting, and metrics
- Experience implementing and managing SOX controls across business processes and IT
- Proficiency with Jira, project management tools, and reporting systems
- SAP experience
- SaaS industry experience
- CPA certification
- SQL or Python experience
- Expert-level presentation skills, including impactful Google Slides presentations
Databricks Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Databricks and has not been reviewed or approved by Databricks.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support with EAP and wellness stipends. Feedback suggests these offerings are a core strength across locations, though specifics may vary by region.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity and annual bonuses are highlighted as competitive and a major draw, aligning employee success with company growth. Feedback suggests stock options are seen as lucrative, particularly for certain roles and incumbents.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible/unlimited PTO and robust paid parental leave are called out as notable components of the package. Feedback suggests these policies support flexibility alongside performance expectations.
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What We Do
As the leader in Unified Data Analytics, Databricks helps organizations make all their data ready for analytics, empower data science and data-driven decisions across the organization, and rapidly adopt machine learning to outpace the competition. By providing data teams with the ability to process massive amounts of data in the Cloud and power AI with that data, Databricks helps organizations innovate faster and tackle challenges like treating chronic disease through faster drug discovery, improving energy efficiency, and protecting financial markets.
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