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Deployment Strategist

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🗓️ Posted 2026-08-18 India Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market ₹450,000–₹800,000/mo

About the Company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide - including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog.

Role & Responsibilities

  • ● Partner with Sales to perform deep discovery, map the customer's organization, quantify the business value ( 10M+ problems), and define the pilot (MVP, success criteria, timeline).
  • ● 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.
  • ● 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.
  • ● 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.
  • ● Scope the ongoing maintenance plan, create customer documentation/training, and leverage your trusted advisor status to identify the next high-value FDE engagement.

Requirements

Experience

  • ● 2+ years as a Deployment Strategist OR 2+ years at a high-growth startup in a builder or founder capacity.
  • ● Alternatively: 5+ years in a senior, client-facing product or delivery role at a top-tier tech company or consultancy.
  • ● Demonstrated experience in value-based scoping (TCO/ROI).
  • ● Experience managing agile software projects.

Skills

  • ● A Trusted Advisor with C-suite gravitas and superb communication skills.
  • ● Opinionated, humble, and able to build rapport and drive decisions in days, not weeks.
  • ● A Product Thinker and Systems Thinker who can perform a SWOT analysis, understand a competitive landscape, and define what to build and why.
  • ● An Execution Driver with a Hands-On mentality.
  • ● Relentless, an expert at escalation, and willing to do the unglamorous work to get the project done.
  • ● Experience writing PRDs.
  • ● Ability/interest to travel up to 50%.