Role at a glance
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- Paris, France
- Work arrangement
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- Proven experience managing technical teams in Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS environments.
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Role Summary
The Field Engineering Manager leads a France-based team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects and Solutions Engineers. The role connects technology and business by supporting value-based solutions, strategic sales cycles, customer relationships, and collaboration across Sales and other teams.
What You'll Do
- Lead, mentor, and develop a pre-sales team in France.
- Foster an inclusive and collaborative team culture.
- Partner with Sales to drive solution- and value-based selling.
- Establish best practices to improve team efficiency and focus on business impact.
- Build trusted relationships with customer executives and strategic partners.
- Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Services to support implementation and customer success.
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View full postingQualifications
Experience managing and scaling pre-sales or technical field organizations; understanding of consumption-based business models; ability to collaborate with Sales and cross-functional leaders; strong communication and interpersonal skills; fluent in English and native-level French; technical background in Data Engineering, Databases, or Data Science; ability to articulate the business value of data, AI, and cloud technologies.
Required
- Proven experience managing technical teams in Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS environments
- Track record of leading, mentoring, and scaling pre-sales or technical field organisations
- Understanding of consumption-based business models
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Sales and other cross-functional leaders
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Fluent in English and native-level French
- Technical background in Data Engineering, Databases, or Data Science
- Ability to articulate the business value of data, AI, and cloud technologies
Preferred
- Consulting experience
Original job description
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Original job description
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As a Field Engineering Manager, you will lead a talented team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects and Solutions Engineers based in France. You’ll play a key leadership role at the intersection of technology and business, helping our teams design value-based solutions and drive growth through effective collaboration with Sales.
You’ll coach your team to communicate complex ideas clearly, support strategic sales cycles, and build strong partnerships with customers and stakeholders across large organisations.
The impact you will have:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing pre-sales team in France.
- Foster an inclusive and collaborative culture that reflects Databricks’ values of customer obsession, teamwork, and diversity.
- Partner with Sales to drive growth through solution- and value-based selling.
- Enhance team effectiveness by establishing best practices that improve efficiency and focus on business impact.
- Build trusted relationships with customer executives and strategic partners.
- Collaborate across teams—including Marketing, Sales, and Services—to ensure seamless implementation and customer success.
- Represent Databricks as part of the regional leadership team and contribute to building our brand and presence in the market.
What we look for:
- Proven experience managing technical teams in Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS environments.
- A track record of leading, mentoring, and scaling pre-sales or technical field organisations.
- Understanding of consumption-based business models.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Sales and other cross-functional leaders.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills—fluent in English and native-level French.
- Technical background in Data Engineering, Databases, or Data Science (consulting experience is a plus).
- Passion for data, AI, and cloud technologies and the ability to articulate their business value clearly.
Note: Location for the role is in Paris (i.e. within commutable distance).
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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
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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.
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About the company
Databricks
Large Enterprise
Databricks is a cloud-based data platform that specializes in providing solutions for data engineering, machine learning, and analytics. Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, the company enables organizations to unify data processing and analysis workflows, facilitating collaboration for data professionals. Databricks offers an integrated environment for data scientists, engineers, and business analysts, streamlining the process of building and deploying AI and data-driven applications. With a strong emphasis on simplifying big data management, Databricks helps businesses harness the power of their data to drive innovation and insights.
Databricks is a cloud-based data platform that specializes in providing solutions for data engineering, machine learning, and analytics. Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, the company enables organizations to unify data processing and analysis workflows, facilitating collaboration for data professionals. Databricks offers an integrated environment for data scientists, engineers, and business analysts, streamlining the process of building and deploying AI and data-driven applications. With a strong emphasis on simplifying big data management, Databricks helps businesses harness the power of their data to drive innovation and insights.