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Director, Event Techology

Databricks · United States · On-site

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About Databricks

Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data + AI Platform. Backed by Battery, Insight and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 12+ years of experience in event technology, corporate events, or marketing technology, including 5+ years leading and developing full-time and contract teams
  • Experience owning event technology strategy and delivery for a flagship conference with 35,000+ in-person attendees and a multi-city global event series
  • 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
  • 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
More about this role

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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.

  • 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...

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