Databricks is at the leading edge of the Unified Data Analytics field, where innovation is key to providing our clients with a competitive edge in today's fast-paced business landscape.
As a Partner Development Representative (PDR) focused on SAP at Databricks, you will be at the forefront of one of our most strategic alliances. This is a first-of-its-kind role, dedicated entirely to building and scaling the Databricks + SAP partnership across APJ.
Your mission is to evangelize, operationalize, and accelerate the Databricks + SAP opportunity. You’ll serve as the connective tissue between internal teams and customer SAP stakeholders, enabling collaboration, driving aligned messaging, and supporting pipeline acceleration. Expect high impact, visibility, and a steep but rewarding learning curve.
Reporting to the Director of Sales Development APJ and executing as part of the SAP + Databricks specialist team, you'll play a pivotal role in this historic Databricks partnership.
The impact you will have:
- Champion the combined SAP + Databricks value proposition for sales and customer conversations
- Lead and support strategic initiatives including SAP field enablement, internal awareness, and marketing activations.
- Be a visible SAP point of contact within Databricks and a key voice in the SAP field community
- Help position Databricks in SAP-centric GTM motions and playbooks
- Own and manage all SAP-related opportunity tracking, partner tagging, and top of funnel pipeline hygiene processes
- Collaborate with Databricks Partner Ecosystem for joint GTM prospecting
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including sales, marketing, ops, alliances, and product
What we look for:
- 2+ years of experience in partner development, business development, or pipeline operations within a B2B tech company
- Good understanding of SAP's ecosystem, technology landscape, and enterprise customer base
- Strong ability to manage processes, drive pipeline discipline, and operate with rigor across systems like Salesforce.
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management across both internal teams and external partners.
- Strategic, adaptable, and entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate in a high-growth environment
- A passion for Data & AI, and a desire to help enterprise customers unlock business value through innovation
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.
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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.
