Director, Event Techology
United States · San Francisco · 5+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Oct 7, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- United States · San Francisco
About Databricks
- 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. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
About the role
- Lead, and continue to build, a high-performing event technology team and the systems that make Databricks Corporate Events reliable, secure, and scalable.
- Steward and evolve the event technology ecosystem across flagship conferences, global series, executive programs, and field events.
Responsibilities
- Sustain and strengthen a high-performing event technology organization with clear structure, career paths, leadership capacity, and staffing plans aligned to a growing global event portfolio.
- Own and advance a prioritized, multi-year event technology roadmap aligned with marketing leadership across Data + AI Summit, Data + AI World Tour, AI Days, executive programs, and field events.
- Keep a complex event technology ecosystem launch-ready, reliable, and scalable across registration, event management, mobile apps, meetings, content, check-in and badging, signage, streaming, onsite AV, production, network, and IT.
- Govern secure and compliant handling of attendee and event data by ensuring required security, privacy, legal, vendor-risk, data-protection, and music-rights requirements are resolved before platforms or content go live.
- Strengthen and steward a trusted event data foundation that connects registration, attendance, and engagement data with Salesforce, Marketo, the Databricks platform, and reporting partners.
- Optimize the financial and operational performance of the event technology portfolio through disciplined budget stewardship, vendor strategy, sourcing, contracts, procurement, and multi-year SaaS negotiations.
- Reinforce consistent ways of working across programs—including requirements, intake, prioritization, testing, UAT, documentation, and retrospectives—so teams deliver repeatable, predictable event experiences.
- Expand safe, responsible AI and agent-based automation across event technology operations to reduce manual work and improve speed and quality.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in event technology, corporate events, or marketing technology, including 5+ years leading and developing full-time and contract teams.
- A demonstrated record of leading and evolving an established organization, developing strong leaders—including functional leads such as a Digital Tools Lead—delegating meaningful ownership, and building an accountable, high-trust team culture.
- Experience owning event technology strategy and delivery for a flagship conference with 35,000+ in-person attendees and a multi-city global event series.
- Broad, credible experience across enterprise event management, mobile apps, meetings, check-in and badging, signage, streaming, onsite AV, production, network, and IT, with enough technical depth to guide leads and make sound decisions.
- Experience partnering with Enterprise Security, Legal, and Privacy on platform security reviews, third-party risk, data-protection agreements, PII handling, and applicable privacy frameworks such as GDPR and CCPA.
- Experience stewarding event data layers, pipelines, warehousing or lakehouse concepts, tables, data structures, and integrations with marketing and sales systems.
- Experience managing music-rights licensing and compliance for live and broadcast events, as well as multi-million-dollar technology budgets and vendor portfolios, including SaaS negotiation, procurement, legal review, and security review.
- Demonstrated ability to evolve operating models, apply AI and agent-based workflows safely, communicate effectively with executive stakeholders, and lead through complex, fast-moving event environments.
Skills
- Salesforce
- Marketo
- Genie
- Lakebase
- Agent Bricks
- Lakeflow
- Lakehouse
- Unity Catalog
