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Deployment StrategistDatabricks · Sydney, Australia
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Deployment Strategist

🗓️ Posted 2026-07-24 Sydney, Australia Hybrid Consulting Strategy
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$15,000–A$20,833/mo

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

  • ● Partner with Account Executives to build C-suite trust, perform deep discovery to map the customer's political and technical landscape, and scope the value.
  • ● Define the Minimum Viable Product for a pilot, write the PRD that guides the engineering team, and manage the project to a successful landing.
  • ● C-Suite Scoping and Value Definition: Partner with Sales to perform deep discovery, map the customer's organization, quantify the business value, and define the pilot.
  • ● End-to-End Product Ownership: Act as the CEO of the project by authoring the PRD, prioritizing the engineering backlog, relentlessly managing scope, and acting as the primary hands-on QA tester.
  • ● Agile Project Execution and Delivery: Drive the FDE build team via an agile process, manage all stakeholder communications from the C-suite to individual engineers, and act as the escalation manager to unblock all technical or political issues.
  • ● Solution Launch and Landing: Own the Day 0 launch, manage the war room, and drive the solution from launch to full adoption by capturing user feedback, iterating, and proving the defined business value.
  • ● Strategic Handoff and Growth: Scope the ongoing maintenance plan, create customer documentation/training, and leverage your trusted advisor status to identify the next high-value FDE engagement.

Requirements

  • ● Executive Presence and Communication: A Trusted Advisor with C-suite gravitas and superb communication skills.
  • ● Product and Strategy Mindset: A Product Thinker and Systems Thinker who can perform a SWOT analysis, understand a competitive landscape, and define what to build and why.
  • ● Relentless Execution: An Execution Driver with a Hands-On mentality.
  • ● Ideal Experience: 2+ years as a Deployment Strategist OR 2+ years at a high-growth startup in a builder or founder capacity.
  • ● Proven Skills: Demonstrated experience in value-based scoping, managing agile software projects, writing PRDs, and the ability/interest to travel up to 50%.