Senior IT Product Manager – Employee Experience
Location: San Francisco, CA or Mountain View, CA
About Databricks IT
At Databricks, our mission is to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems and that starts with empowering our own employees.
The Databricks IT organization is a product-led team that builds intelligent, scalable systems to make every Brickster’s workday simpler, faster, and more connected. We’re reimagining how employees and managers interact with internal tools; designing a unified, AI-driven experience that integrates data, insights, and workflows across the company.
We’re looking for a Senior IT Product Manager to lead strategy and delivery for our Employee Experience, an internal product that brings together all employment-related workflows (onboarding, performance, compensation, engagement, and more) into one seamless experience.
The Opportunity
Managers and employees at Databricks interact with dozens of systems every week, from Workday to performance and onboarding tools, often switching contexts and duplicating effort. This team is responsible for defining and delivering product vision to simplify and unify the employee experience, designing an integrated layer that sits on top of our systems of record to surface the right tasks, insights, and actions in one place.
You’ll own a product area within the employee experience domain and shape the future of how Databricks works internally: how we design, measure, and continuously improve the way people manage their teams, careers, and day-to-day tasks.
What You’ll Do
- Own the Vision: Define and evolve the long-term strategy for the unified employee and manager experience, aligning with Databricks’ product-led IT vision. Translate goals like reducing friction and improving engagement into an actionable roadmap centered on employee and manager needs. Champion a persona-based approach that starts with the needs of managers and employees, not the constraints of existing systems.
- Drive Product Strategy: Partner with stakeholders across People, IT, and Engineering to design connected, intuitive workflows that unify multiple systems. Lead discovery, user research, and prioritization to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions.
- Execute and Measure: Define success metrics (adoption, efficiency, engagement) and use insights to guide iteration and storytelling. Ensure each release delivers measurable impact and advances the unified experience.
- Influence and Collaborate: Work cross-functionally to align design, engineering, and leadership around the product vision. Communicate clearly, build alignment across diverse stakeholders, and represent the experience initiative in company-wide productivity and AI discussions.
What You Bring
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in enterprise or internal product environments.
- Proven success delivering products that connect multiple systems and drive measurable business impact.
- Strategic thinker who links product outcomes to organizational goals.
- Strong stakeholder management and storytelling skills to align diverse teams around a clear vision.
- Experience using AI, analytics, or data to enhance user experience and decision-making.
- Deep understanding of user-centered design, data-informed development, and modern governance practices (e.g., RBAC/ABAC).
- Comfortable leading through ambiguity and influencing without authority across technical and business teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with enterprise platforms like Workday, ServiceNow, or similar HR systems.
- Strong grasp of the employee lifecycle and how technology enables it.
- Proven track record in building internal productivity or HR experience products at scale.
Why You’ll Love This Role
This is not a traditional IT role - it's an opportunity to build one of Databricks’ most visible internal products, touching every employee and manager. You’ll define how the company experiences its own culture, systems, and data, while shaping a product that embodies Databricks’ values of simplicity, truth-seeking, and innovation.
You’ll be part of a forward-looking IT organization that’s product-led, AI-aware, and design-obsessed, and you’ll have the autonomy to create the future of how Databricks works.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) plan with company match and equity awards
- Flexible time off and paid parental leave
- Family planning and mental wellness programs
- Annual professional development fund and wellness reimbursements
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 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 anticipates 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.
Zone 1 Pay Range$145,000—$199,300 USD
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, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.
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.
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