Developer Advocate, Manager

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Are you a charismatic data engineering Developer Advocate at heart, someone who excels in the spotlight, loves presenting and hosting events, possesses a deep knowledge of the Databricks Intelligence Platform, and knows how to grow a team?

As a Databricks Developer Advocate Manager, you’ll manage a Databricks Lakehouse DevRel team and be a crucial link between our engineering teams and the broad community of data professionals building their careers on Databricks technologies. You'll share your knowledge and be a conduit between the engineering teams and the wider developer community of data engineers building their careers, products, and services on technologies like the open source Apache Spark™, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Apache Iceberg™.

This role will leverage your strong expertise in Databricks to educate, inspire, and support our growing user base. It will also build on your strong reputation within the open source communities and relationships with the Apache and Linux foundations. 

Your responsibilities will encompass strong team management and a wide range of knowledge-sharing activities. You’ll lead by example and deliver engaging talks, host insightful panels and meetups, create informative blogs and video content, develop comprehensive courseware, provide expert answers in community forums, and conduct one-on-one sessions with influential data engineers and scientists. These efforts will help disseminate best practices and foster a thriving Databricks community.

Community engagement will be at the heart of your role. You’ll work closely with the Databricks community and the product team, ensuring that user needs and product development align seamlessly. Reporting directly to the Head of Developer Relations, you’ll collaborate with fellow Developer Advocates and program managers to create a cohesive and impactful developer relations strategy for Databricks Lakehouse.

The ideal candidate for this position will embody the values of our Developer Relations team: a deep passion for data and AI, genuine empathy for developers’ needs, and a strong commitment to effectively explaining our products. 

You’ll use your diverse Databricks skill set to educate the community about Databricks technologies and continuously gather and utilize community feedback to improve the developer experience. 

More about the DevRel team: 

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world’s most challenging problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. 

Our ability to execute this mission depends on building trust and recognition with an ever-growing community of data engineers, analysts, scientists, machine learning, and AI practitioners.

The Developer Relations (DevRel) team at Databricks is dedicated to building and fostering relationships with communities of data practitioners. Our primary goal is to drive awareness and adoption of the Databricks Data + AI Platform and related open source software (OSS) solutions such as Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and MLflow.

The impact you will have:

• Manage and grow a team of Databricks Lakehouse Developer Advocates by leading by example. 
• Drive awareness and adoption of Databricks technologies through speaking engagements at industry events and conferences
• Create high-quality educational content like videos, sample notebooks, datasets, tutorials, courseware, and blog posts.
• Expand and nurture the Databricks user community by organizing and growing meetups and user groups and providing support to data scientists, engineers, and analysts in online communities.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to share community learnings and influence product direction.
• Create and manage developer-focused programs to foster engagement and loyalty, creating a positive developer experience for data practitioners.
• Gather and analyze feedback from the community to drive continuous improvement of Databricks products and services.

What we look for:

• Experience managing and growing a DevRel team
• 5+ years experience as DevRel and as a software developer, solutions architect, or related profession
• Subject matter knowledge of solving data engineering problems at all scales.
• Passion for building strong teams and team members
• Comprehensive understanding of the Databricks products and ecosystem
• Experience working with the Linux and Apache™ foundations and contributing to open source communities
• Active participation and recognized leadership in Databricks community forums, chats, and meetups
• Proven track record in nurturing developer communities, organizing user groups, and facilitating global meetups
• Exceptional communication skills, with a talent for articulating complex Databricks concepts through writing, teaching, videos, and public speaking
• Deep empathy for developer needs, with the ability to craft engaging experiences across tutorials, notebooks, and community platforms
• Adept at collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to align community initiatives with product objectives
• Demonstrated ability to catalyze growth in both digital and in-person developer communities