Director, Field Engineering (CPG & Retail)

Req ID FEQ327R163 About the Role As a Director, Field Engineering, you will lead a multi-team Field Engineering organization and own strategy, talent, operating model, and execution for a significant business area. You will scale customer and business impact through other leaders while influencing broader go-to-market, partner, Product, Engineering, and company priorities. This role typically oversees a leadership team of approximately 3–5 leaders or an equivalent multi-team scope. Depending on the assignment, you may lead a broad business unit, multiple segments or countries, a major portfolio, or another strategically significant area. The Impact You Will Have Build and lead a strong leadership team that attracts, develops, and retains exceptional Field Engineering talent. Own an end-to-end strategy across talent, customer coverage, technical priorities, operating model, execution, and business impact. Translate customer, market, competitive, and technical trends into clear priorities and 6–12+ month plans. Scale impact beyond individual teams through leaders, cross-functional GTM initiatives, partner ecosystems, and repeatable operating mechanisms. Build trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders, including VP-level and equivalent audiences, and guide complex programs, escalations, and transformation roadmaps. Establish operating norms and inspection cadences across the organization that create visibility, accountability, predictable execution, and fast course correction. Shape resourcing and organizational design to support growth, customer outcomes, technical quality, and long-term business value. Upgrade hiring rigor, talent practices, leadership development, performance management, and succession planning across the organization. Influence broader Sales, Professional Services, Marketing, Partners, Product, Engineering, Support, and executive priorities through a clear point of view and strong cross-functional relationships. Partner with GT

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars. SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next. About the role We're hiring a Regional Director, Field Engineering to build and lead a high impact pre-sales Field Engineering team focused on SpaceXAI's healthcare vertical — supporting our fastest growing enterprise accounts across health systems, payers, and healthcare software companies. This role sits at the intersection of Sales, Product, and Engineering and is responsible for ensuring our technical pre-sales motion scales with quality, speed, and credibility. As the Regional Director, Field Engineering, you’ll manage and develop Field Engineers who partner closely with AEs to run technical discovery, demos, and proofs of concept tailored to Healthcare buyers. You’ll also stay close to customers and deals yourself, coaching in real time, unblocking complex evaluations, and ensuring Cursor is positioned as the best AI-native development platform for healthcare engineering organizations. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines technical fluency, strong people management, and excellent cross-functional judgment. What you’ll do Lead, coach, and scale a team of Field Engineers supporting enterprise opportunities Partner closely with Sales leadership and AEs

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars. SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next. About the role We're hiring a Regional Director, Field Engineering to build and lead a high-impact pre-sales Field Engineering team within one of our key industry verticals: High Tech, Retail, Life Sciences, Financial Services, Public Sector, Aerospace, or Healthcare. This role sits at the intersection of Sales, Product, and Engineering and is responsible for ensuring our technical pre-sales motion scales with quality, speed, and credibility inside a specific vertical. As the Regional Director, Field Engineering, you'll manage and develop Field Engineers who partner closely with AEs to run technical discovery, demos, and proofs of concept with the largest and most complex accounts in your vertical. You'll also stay close to customers and deals yourself, coaching in real time, unblocking complex evaluations, and ensuring Cursor is positioned as the best AI-native development platform for your industry. This is a hands-on, entrepreneurial leadership role for someone who combines deep vertical expertise, technical fluency, strong people management, and the drive to build something from scratch. What you'll do Lead, coach, and scale a team of Field Engineers supporting enterprise op

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars. SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next. About the role We’re hiring a Regional Director, Field Engineering to build and lead a high impact pre-sales Field Engineering team supporting our fastest growing enterprise accounts. This role sits at the intersection of Sales, Product, and Engineering and is responsible for ensuring our technical pre-sales motion scales with quality, speed, and credibility. As the Regional Director, Field Engineering, you’ll manage and develop Field Engineers who partner closely with AEs to run technical discovery, demos, and proofs of concept. You’ll also stay close to customers and deals yourself, coaching in real time, unblocking complex evaluations, and ensuring Cursor is positioned as the best AI-native development platform on the market. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines technical fluency, strong people management, and excellent cross-functional judgment. What you’ll do Lead, coach, and scale a team of Field Engineers supporting enterprise opportunities Partner closely with Sales leadership and AEs to drive high quality technical discovery, demos, and POCs Establish best practices for evaluations, proof-of-concept execution, and technical deal strategy Serve as

FEQ227R233 MANAGER, FIELD ENGINEERING About the Role As a Manager, Field Engineering, you will lead a team of technical customer advisors who help organizations solve complex data, analytics, and AI challenges. You will work closely with Sales and cross-functional partners to translate customer priorities into effective technical strategies, strong customer outcomes, and durable business impact. This role is typically aligned to an account district, patch, segment, or comparable portfolio and leads a team of approximately 8–10 Field Engineering professionals. You will stay close to the work while building the coaching, operating, and collaboration practices that enable your team to succeed. The Impact You Will Have Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing and inclusive Field Engineering team. Partner with account teams to define technical-win strategy, qualify opportunities, prioritize customer needs, and align team resources. Build trusted relationships with customer stakeholders, including Director-, Head of, and VP-level audiences as appropriate to the engagement. Guide discovery, solution strategy, architecture discussions, adoption planning, and value realization for customer engagements. Establish regular operating rhythms to inspect progress, customer health, technical risk, escalations, capacity, and business impact. Coach team members to communicate clearly, navigate ambiguity, influence stakeholders, and connect technical recommendations to business outcomes. Maintain technical credibility across Databricks platform concepts, data and AI technologies, cloud architecture, governance, security, and networking. Represent customer needs internally and partner with Product, Engineering, Support, Professional Services, Marketing, and Partners to resolve issues and improve outcomes. Create a culture of psychological safety, inclusion, accountability, continuous learning, and recognition. Experiment with AI-enabled tools and repeatable practices that improve tea

FEQ427R411 Req ID Mission Reporting to a Director, Field Engineering, the Sr. Manager, Field Engineering will help lead a team of Solutions Architects (SAs) for the Startups segment of Databricks’ Field Engineering team. You will lead and promote a diverse team focusing on enterprise software, big data/analytics, data engineering, data science, data warehousing and gener ative AI. Leading the technical sales team, you will partner with Sales (and other Field Engineering technical segments) to increase revenue and help custo mers achieve success through Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform. You wil scale and maintain an outstanding Field Engineering team that is efficient in its operations to help ac celerate Data bricks' growth in the market. The Impact You Will Have You will hire, train, and grow a team of Solutions Architects for a company in high-growth mode Make your customers e xtremely successful with Databricks and provide outsized value to their businesses You will maintain a robust hiring pipeline of highly qualified, bar-raising candidates You will establish relationships across the business to make your customers and team successful You will keep your team of SAs ah ead of the technical curve by ensuring they maintain advanced knowledge of the Databricks technology stack You will ensure that you r team is continuously learning and working to provide our customers with the most comprehensive solution s for their needs You will engage with customers strategically at the Executive Level to drive mutually beneficial outcomes and set GTM strategy and drive world class execution towards meeting aggressive sales targets What We Look For Proven experience building and leading technical pre-sales teams - hiring, on-boarding, coaching and mentoring those teams to mature and grow into highly capable individual operators as well as exceptional team-players 10+ years of experience in the data space with a technical product (i.e. data warehousing, big da