As a Technical Product Manager, you will work closely with product managers, engineering teams, and technical field organizations to ensure the features we design and ship deliver outstanding user experiences.
Depending on your background, you will focus on one of two critical product areas:
OLTP DatabasesYou will help shape our transactional database capabilities to meet the performance, reliability, and scalability requirements of modern applications and AI agents.
Data GovernanceYou will help ensure data assets are governed effectively, enabling controlled access, compliance, and visibility across the organization. This includes enabling governed access for AI-driven use cases (e.g. agent-based access via MCP or similar technologies).
This role requires you to deeply understand both functional and non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability, security, and compliance and how customers meet these requirements today. You will evaluate how these workloads are implemented on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and identify opportunities to improve the product experience.
You will act as a bridge between technical field teams and product and engineering. Insights from customer PoCs, benchmarks, and real-world implementations will directly inform product decisions. You will also help ensure that product improvements are clearly communicated back to the field.
The impact you will have- Identify and drive impactful product improvements in your domain of expertise
- Define and run performance benchmarks (OLTP focus) or governance best practices and reference architectures (governance focus)
- Shape and prioritize a meaningful product roadmap
- Support go-to-market efforts and guide product adoption
- For governance focus: define processes and mechanisms for how AI agents securely and compliantly access the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
- 5+ years of experience with a strong, hands-on technical background
- Strong empathy for customers across full spectrum of Data Platform users
- Deep domain expertise in one of the following:
- Transactional databases (OLTP), cloud-native databases, or distributed systems
- Data governance, data catalogs, lineage, and access management
- Experience evaluating and comparing technologies across dimensions such as performance, reliability, governance, and compliance
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools
- Experience with systems design and architecture
- Proven ability to work effectively across product, engineering, and technical field teams
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
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
- 5+ years of experience with a strong, hands-on technical background
- Deep domain expertise in either transactional databases or data governance
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Experience evaluating technologies on performance and compliance
- Experience with systems design and architecture
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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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants and RSUs are a major part of total compensation and are highlighted for meaningful upside potential. Stock-based awards and refreshers contribute to strong overall pay positioning across senior technical and go-to-market roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are complemented by mental-health resources, an EAP, and wellness reimbursements. Health benefits are consistently framed as comprehensive and competitive.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for all parents, fertility support, and backup care options provide tangible assistance for family needs. Hybrid work norms and team-day structure further ease coordination for caregivers.
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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.
