# Product Finance Director, R&D Capital Allocation & Engineering Operations at Databricks

- Company: Databricks
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: http://www.databricks.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Apply by: 2026-11-29
- Apply: https://databricks.com/company/careers/open-positions/job?gh_jid=8823193002&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/databricks-product-finance-director-r-and-d-capital-allocation-and-engineering-o/

## About the role

As Databricks scales at unprecedented velocity, how we invest our R&D capital—both human and compute—is critical to our scale. We are looking for a Product Finance leader to own R&D capital allocation and engineering operations. You will be a key finance partner to our senior Engineering and Product Operations leaders, with a mandate that spans product-level R&D ROI, global workforce and location strategy, and the rapidly evolving economics of AI-enabled software development. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Drive product-level ROI and R&D capital allocation
- Establish frameworks to measure product-level ROI across a fast-moving platform like Databricks where engineering velocity is extremely high
- Operationalize ROI metrics so they directly inform product investment and resource allocation decisions
- Define engineering economics in the AI era
- Partner with Engineering to model how AI developer tooling and internal token spend scale alongside headcount, quantifying the tradeoff between human capital and compute capital
- Measure the end-to-end cost of AI-enabled engineering, including the second-order impact on cloud spend, and partner with Engineering to optimize investments

Tags: Finance

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