GAQ127R86

Mission

This is your chance to make an impact with our growing team! You will partner with leaders across the organization as a strategic partner, consultant, and steward of the overall employee experience. You'll be a trusted advisor and partner in continued development of the employee relations function as we search scalable solutions to support our rapid growth. Under the guidance of and through a partnership with the Employee Relations Director, you will be an ambassador for our overall principles, values, programs and policies, driving a global, diverse, performance-based work environment.

The impact you will have:

• Consult with managers and people generalists, providing guidance to address the most complex employee performance concerns.
• Conduct investigations, including gathering and analyzing facts, applying relevant policies, guidelines and laws to reaching findings.
• Partner with Employment Legal, Compliance team members and other internal investigative bodies as needed.
• Prepare investigation reports, track work in case management system and draft disciplinary documentation as needed.
• Partner with our People Partner team to manage investigations, employee disciplinary issues, and performance management situations
• Employee Representative Bodies Management: You will build and maintain relationships with an evolving scope of Employee Representative Bodies, ensuring that those relationships are productive, and promoting the company’s ability to move with speed and flexibility. 

What we look for:

• Atleast 10 years of experience in the Employee Relations vertical.
• Considerable depth of Employee Relations experience with a focus on strategic partnership with managers up through the Senior Director level.
• Ability to multi-task, deal with ambiguity, influence decision-makers and work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency in advising and coaching managers on complex employee issues.
• Direct experience in conducting corporate investigations of sensitive workplace concerns.
• Capability to coordinate internal resources in solution development for emerging issues.
• Experience with Works Councils/Employee Representative Boards 
• Bachelor’s degree required. Law degree or graduate degree in labor/industrial relations desired.
• Multi-Language skills a plus.

GAQ426R306

While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.

Databricks is one of the world’s fastest-growing data and AI companies—an industry leader transforming how organizations harness the power of their data. As we scale rapidly across the globe, we’re seeking an experienced, impact-driven Senior Organizational Development Architect.

This team takes on the highest-impact, hardest People challenges — the ones that directly affect how fast the company can grow, how well teams perform, and how leaders scale. These aren’t routine programs. They’re complex, company-wide efforts that need fresh thinking, tight execution, and real adoption — from defining the problem to aligning executives to making change stick across thousands of employees.

You will start by building a global strategy and solutions to uplevel our global interviewer capability, and help us drive hiring excellence. This role reports to the Head of Organizational Development, under our broader Talent Management org. 

The Impact You’ll Have

• Anchor Mission: Interviewer Enablement & Certification: You will own the global roadmap for how we certify and enable "Brickster" interviewers. You will design the certification approach, build multi-persona enablement assets, and create the tracking and feedback loops that ensure our hiring bar remains elite as we scale.
• Strategic Partnership: You will act as a consultative "architect" for our senior leaders and People Partners, moving beyond program management to diagnosis our hardest problems and designing org-wide solutions at scale. 
• Career Framework Architecture: Design and build success profiles and career ladders that define the key capabilities for our most critical roles, ensuring they are built for a high-growth, AI-first future.
• Upleveling Hiring Process & Assessment : Partner with Talent Acquisition to embed success profiles into our hiring workflows, transforming how we assess talent and ensuring our interview process is a competitive advantage.
• AI-Driven Org Design: Lead the "Future of Work" conversation with the business. Analyze how AI is shifting roles and workflows, and design org structures that optimize for human-AI collaboration and maximum productivity.

About You

• Experience: 12–15+ years of experience, likely from a top management consulting firm or a hyper-growth tech environment where you have built programs from scratch. 
• Consultative & Curious: You operate with a “business-first mindset” - what problem are we trying to solve for the company? You’re eager to understand Databricks’ technology, customer value prop, culture, and the problem at hand to build solutions that are right for Databricks rather than defaulting to previous playbooks.
• Complex Problem Solver: You think from first principles - seeking to deeply understand and diagnose the problem you’re trying to solve. You have a proven ability to deconstruct it into a structured, multi-quarter roadmap that materially impacts a global function or region.
• Strategic Influencer: You can effectively influence VPs and SVPs, using a combination of your knowledge of our business and data. You routinely drive alignment across complex, cross-functional stakeholder groups to deliver the right solutions. Your key partners include: business leaders, Talent Acquisition, People Partners, Strategy & Finance teams. 
• AI-Builder Mindset: You are deeply curious about how AI is fundamentally changing job descriptions and organizational structures. You not only use data and AI tools to accelerate your own thinking and execution - but architect AI-first solutions for the business.
• Execution: You bring a programmatic approach to driving adoption of your solutions as scale (1,000s of Bricksters). You can turn your understanding of the problem into strong program design, a robust change and enablement plan, and own the measurement strategy to show that your programs are truly making an impact
• HR Domain Expertise: You have a broad and deep background in one or more of the following domain areas: Org Development, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition. You are highly aware of industry changes and can translate that into a strategy that makes sense for Databricks. 

GAQ426R358

While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.

We’re looking for a Chief of Staff to the Chief People Officer (CPO) to help drive operational excellence, strategic alignment, and execution across the Databricks People organization. In this role, you will work closely with the CPO and People Leadership Team to ensure that our strategy, priorities, and operating rhythms are aligned and effectively executed as we scale.

You will play a critical role in connecting strategy to execution, enabling strong collaboration across the People Leadership Team and Centers of Excellence, and ensuring the CPO’s time and focus are directed toward the most impactful priorities for the company.

A key part of this role will be helping support the transformation of the People organization into an AI-first, highly efficient function, identifying opportunities to leverage AI to automate routine work, accelerate insights, improve decision-making, and fundamentally change how the People team operates at scale.

The impact you will have:

• Drive the operating cadence of the People Leadership Team, including leadership meetings, quarterly and annual planning, and strategic reviews.
• Ensure alignment across People functions and Centers of Excellence by linking strategy, planning, and execution.
• Partner with functional leaders, PMO and finance to translate company priorities into clear People team objectives and operational plans.
• Develop reporting mechanisms and dashboards to track key People metrics, strategic initiatives, and organizational performance, and coordinate reporting metrics to the board and executive team as needed.
• Identify and implement AI-powered tools and workflows to improve the operating efficiency of the People organization, from automating routine reporting and communications to accelerating how the team synthesizes data and gets to better decisions, faster.

What we look for:

• Experience as a Chief of Staff, Strategy Lead, or similar role supporting a senior executive
• 8–12+ years of experience in HR, strategy, operations, consulting, or business operations. Experience working with People/HR organizations or talent strategy initiatives is strongly preferred.
• Strong strategic thinking and program management skills with the ability to translate strategy into operational execution
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills with experience supporting senior executives and working effectively across cross-functional stakeholders to drive results across complex organizations
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional initiatives across complex organizations
• Strong analytical and data storytelling skills to drive insight and decision-making
• Ability to operate effectively in a high-growth, fast-paced environment and drive alignment through ambiguity
• A genuine AI adopter who actively uses AI tools to do their own work better, and brings curiosity and initiative to identifying how these tools can transform how the People team operates

GAQ127R85

Mission

Reporting to the EMEA People Partner Director, the Staff People Partner is a strategic advisor and catalyst for organisational excellence, partnering closely with senior leaders across Databricks’ European footprint.

This role operates at the intersection of business strategy, talent, and transformation, shaping a high-performance, future-ready organisation in the context of rapid growth and AI-driven change.

• Travel: May involve travel to other EMEA locations and the US for quarterly business reviews, People team meetings and for other ad-hoc business reasons
• Focus: Field Engineering, Professional Services and Field Enablement teams, subject to change over time

What you’ll do:

• Act as a trusted strategic partner to senior leaders within the Field Engineering, Professional Services and Field Enablement teams, translating business priorities into forward-looking people strategies that drive performance, scalability, and innovation.
• Lead organisational transformation by designing and enabling structures, capabilities, and ways of working that support hyper-growth and evolving market demands.
• Elevate the talent bar through rigorous talent management, succession planning, and leadership development, ensuring we attract, develop, and retain exceptional talent.
• Champion a high-performance culture grounded in accountability, inclusion, and continuous growth, while enhancing the end-to-end employee experience.
• Coach and challenge leaders to build inclusive, resilient, and future-ready teams, particularly in navigating change driven by AI and new ways of working.
• Drive organisational effectiveness through strategic organisational design, while acting as a senior escalation point for complex employee relations matters, ensuring consistent and risk-aware outcomes.
• Partner across EMEA and globally to deliver a consistent yet locally relevant people experience, balancing global standards with regional nuance.
• Leverage data and insights to inform decision-making, measure impact, and continuously improve people outcomes.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience as a senior HR/People Business Partner in a high-growth, complex, and matrixed environment.
• Curiosity and adaptability in the face of emerging trends, particularly the impact of AI on work, skills, and organisations.
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to translate insights into action.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect people strategy to business outcomes.
• Track record of leading large-scale change and transformation initiatives.
• Deep expertise across core people disciplines (organisation design, talent, performance, employee relations, rewards).
• Skilled at influencing and coaching senior stakeholders with credibility and impact.
• Passion for building inclusive, high-performing cultures and exceptional employee experiences.

GAQ127R143

While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.

Databricks is seeking a strategic and experienced compensation lead to serve as a trusted partner to founders and senior leadership in our R&D org (technology and product teams). This is a key role on the Compensation function at Databricks, reporting to the Senior Director of Compensation. This role will support long-term business objectives by working within the overall Compensation philosophy to co-create compensation models that help attract, retain and motivate world-class technical talent.

At Databricks, we don't believe compensation is just a number; it's a tool to recognize that every employee is an owner and a part of our success. We are looking for a team member with a solid foundation and history of success in doing just that!

Scope of the role

This is a hands-on, high-impact role that will effectively cover below areas and the anticipated time spent on each:

• Compensation solutioning for R&D Talent (40%)
• Managing Compensation processes through the employee life cycle (30%)
• Contributing to building and delivering enterprise-wide compensation programs/ frameworks (30%)

Requirements

We’re looking for someone who has the following muscles:

Comp expertise

• Know your craft - Job architecture, Comp frameworks, Market pricing, Year-end and Midyear pay cycle, global compensation practices, pay for performance design 
• Know your data - Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear outputs and recommendations. Analyze competitive trends in cash, equity, and total rewards to inform decision-making and tradeoffs. Advanced capabilities required in gSheets, excel. We’ll love it if you know tableau, SQL, python or have used AI for comp analytics though not a requirement
• Know the competition - Deep expertise in tech compensation practices, especially around new-hire and refresh equity strategies in the tech sector
• Be rational - Ability to balance comp knowledge with business solutioning from a first principles viewpoint. 

Operational and partnership excellence

• Build innovatively & scale effectively - create innovative frameworks/solutions to not just solve today’s issues but also thinking ahead and anticipating future needs
• Operational capability - Ability to connect the dots between systems, players, programs to seamlessly deliver compensation programs/ products
• Savvy collaborator - Partner closely with founders and executive leadership to pre-empt, understand and solve business needs. Navigate at times competing priorities and opinions to drive the best outcomes
• Trusted advisor - Act as a trusted advisor on compensation decisions, including offers, promotions, leveling, retention and M&A scenarios. Support sensitive, high-stakes compensation decisions with sound judgment and data-backed recommendations.