What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Data+AI Events position at Databricks?
While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role, we are open to remote candidates in other locations.
The Director, Data AI Events will be responsible for developing the Data AI event strategy, building new and optimizing existing programs that maximize impact on various targets. This individual has a proven track record of hiring and leading a best-in-class team of talented, highly effective event marketers. This role requires an enthusiastic individual with strong communication and organizational skills to lead the team in evolving, marketing, and executing our Data AI flagship event (in-person and virtual) and World Tour events for scale. The candidate should also enjoy developing strong relationships with their executive, sales, and marketing stakeholders and thrive on creating innovative, out-of-the-box event experiences for our target audiences.
The impact you will have:
- Multi-year Data AI global event strategy defined based on program/ROI analysis, business imperatives, program results, and stakeholder collaboration
- Fully optimized event program strategy derived from evaluation of target audiences, demand generation engine performance, tested hypotheses, and analysis of conversion rates
- Meet or exceed defined targets for live and virtual events to increase audience composition and volume, attendee engagement, Net Promoter Score (NPS), pipeline/pipe-in-room (PIR), and down funnel conversion rates.
- Development of a broadly valuable content strategy that showcases the latest innovation in data and AI for all our target audiences
- Enhanced sponsorship/registration revenue strategy
- Optimized workstream project management to ensure scalable and efficient operations
- Seamless flow of leads from events into marketing automation systems and to sales team stakeholders to maximize pipeline generation and conversion
- Strong relationships built with Executive, Marketing, Sales, and other stakeholders globally
- Hire and facilitate growth and engagement of team members through thought partnership and mentorship
What we look for:
- 10 years experience managing largescale events, including at least 7 years managing people
- Proven track record of building/managing high performing teams
- Experience having pipeline building responsibility and accountability for sales
- Experience holding/managing large event budgets
- Experience building audience acquisition strategy and Sales accountability/enablement
- Experience driving increased demand and conversions for corporate events
- Experience leading production and complex workstream operations of 15k events
- Strong background in data management/analytics and metrics and reporting out to key stakeholders
- Ability to use CMS, Registration (Rainfocus), CRM (SFDC), and data visualization (Tableau) tools and marketing automation systems (Marketo)
- Travel for events will be required (when appropriate)
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) Plan
- Equity awards
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Family Planning
- Gym reimbursement
- Annual personal development fund
- Work headphones reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Business travel accident insurance
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
As a federal government contractor, Databricks requires new U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Proof of vaccination will be required as a condition of employment. Databricks will make reasonable accommodations based on medical conditions or religious grounds for qualified candidates in accordance with applicable law.
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About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 5,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, H&M, and over 40% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world's toughest problems. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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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.
