Director, Marketing Strategy and AI Transformation

SLSQ427R391

Location: United States, Remote [San Francisco Bay Area Preferred]

Databricks is seeking a Director, Marketing Strategy and AI Transformation to own how our global marketing organization decides where to invest and reimagine how the work gets done. This role brings annual planning and investment strategy together with the redesign of marketing workflows for an AI and agentic operating model.

You will set the planning and investment operating model for marketing while leading the shift from human-executed to agent-executed work across the organization. This highly cross-functional role partners closely with Marketing Leadership and their departments, Finance, Sales Strategy and our central platform and data teams to make investment decisions that are grounded in real capacity and to turn AI capability into standard practice at scale.

Reporting to the AVP of Marketing Technology, Data, and Growth, you will build and lead a net-new team, establishing this function from the ground up.

The impact you will have

• Own the end-to-end annual marketing planning process, establishing a single planning system of record with explicit trade-offs
• Evaluate leading indicators and business outcomes to understand low and high performance areas and drivers
• Identify and scale best practices to drive incremental growth across global business units
• Build and maintain the marketing capacity model spanning people, agencies, and agent-based execution, so that commitments are made against known capacity constraints
• Oversee development of the highest-leverage marketing workflows for agent execution, targeting a step-change improvement in time-to-market
• Align marketing investment strategy against the company's strategic bets, ensuring clarity on spend and capacity toward the highest-impact products and programs, and improving pipeline efficiency.
• Drive marketing target setting in partnership with Marketing, Finance and Sale