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Director, Event Technology

Lead, and continue to build, a high-performing event technology team and the systems that make Databricks Corporate Events reliable, secure, and scalable. This role stewards and evolves the event technology ecosystem across flagship conferences, global series, executive programs, and field events, with the Digital Tools Lead and broader team driving functional ownership. You will set direction, strengthen leadership capacity, remove barriers, and use data and responsible AI to improve attendee experience and operating efficiency.

The impact you will have

• Sustain and strengthen a high-performing event technology organization with clear structure, career paths, leadership capacity, and staffing plans aligned to a growing global event portfolio; success is measured through team retention, development progress, leadership depth, and delivery capacity.
• Own and advance a prioritized, multi-year event technology roadmap aligned with marketing leadership across Data + AI Summit, Data + AI World Tour, AI Days, executive programs, and field events; success is measured through roadmap delivery, stakeholder alignment, and adoption of agreed capabilities.
• Keep a complex event technology ecosystem launch-ready, reliable, and scalable across registration, event management, mobile apps, meetings, content, check-in and badging, signage, streaming, onsite AV, production, network, and IT; success is measured through service performance, readiness milestones, and fewer critical event technology issues.
• Govern secure and compliant handling of attendee and event data by ensuring required security, privacy, legal, vendor-risk, data-protection, and music-rights requirements are resolved before platforms or content go live; success is measured through completed approvals, documented controls, and no unresolved compliance blockers for live or distributed events.
• Strengthen and steward a trusted event data foundation that connects registration, attendance, and engagement data with Salesforce, Marketo, the Databricks platform, and reporting partners; success is measured through reconciled data, accurate reporting, and reliable access for Analytics, Marketing, and Sales Operations.
• Optimize the financial and operational performance of the event technology portfolio through disciplined budget stewardship, vendor strategy, sourcing, contracts, procurement, and multi-year SaaS negotiations; success is measured through spend against plan, vendor performance, contract outcomes, and delivery against service expectations.
• Reinforce consistent ways of working across programs—including requirements, intake, prioritization, testing, UAT, documentation, and retrospectives—so teams deliver repeatable, predictable event experiences; success is measured through adoption of operating standards and improved execution consistency.
• Expand safe, responsible AI and agent-based automation across event technology operations to reduce manual work and improve speed and quality; success is measured through documented use cases, adoption, time saved, and appropriate risk controls.

What we look for

• 12+ years of experience in event technology, corporate events, or marketing technology, including 5+ years leading and developing full-time and contract teams.
• A demonstrated record of leading and evolving an established organization, developing strong leaders—including functional leads such as a Digital Tools Lead—delegating meaningful ownership, and building an accountable, high-trust team culture.
• Experience owning event technology strategy and delivery for a flagship conference with 35,000+ in-person attendees and a multi-city global event series.
• Broad, credible experience across enterprise event management, mobile apps, meetings, check-in and badging, signage, streaming, onsite AV, production, network, and IT, with enough technical depth to guide leads and make sound decisions.
• Experience partnering with Enterprise Security, Legal, and Privacy on platform security reviews, third-party risk, data-protection agreements, PII handling, and applicable privacy frameworks such as GDPR and CCPA.
• Experience stewarding event data layers, pipelines, warehousing or lakehouse concepts, tables, data structures, and integrations with marketing and sales systems.
• Experience managing music-rights licensing and compliance for live and broadcast events, as well as multi-million-dollar technology budgets and vendor portfolios, including SaaS negotiation, procurement, legal review, and security review.
• Demonstrated ability to evolve operating models, apply AI and agent-based workflows safely, communicate effectively with executive stakeholders, and lead through complex, fast-moving event environments.

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 base 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 anticipated 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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