Sr. IT Product Manager Employee Experience
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
6 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Senior IT Product Manager Employee Experience
Location: San Francisco CA or Mountain View CA
About Databricks IT
At Databricks our mission is to help data teams solve the worlds toughest problems and that starts with empowering our own employees.
The Databricks IT organization is a product-led team that builds intelligent scalable systems to make every Bricksters workday simpler faster and more connected. Were reimagining how employees and managers interact with internal tools; designing a unified AI-driven experience that integrates data insights and workflows across the company.
Were looking for a Senior IT Product Manager to lead strategy and delivery for our Employee Experience an internal product that brings together all employment-related workflows (onboarding performance compensation engagement and more) into one seamless experience.
The Opportunity
Managers and employees at Databricks interact with dozens of systems every week from Workday to performance and onboarding tools often switching contexts and duplicating effort. This team is responsible for defining and delivering product vision to simplify and unify the employee experience designing an integrated layer that sits on top of our systems of record to surface the right tasks insights and actions in one place.
Youll own a product area within the employee experience domain and shape the future of how Databricks works internally: how we design measure and continuously improve the way people manage their teams careers and day-to-day tasks.
What Youll Do
- Own the Vision: Define and evolve the long-term strategy for the unified employee and manager experience aligning with Databricks product-led IT vision. Translate goals like reducing friction and improving engagement into an actionable roadmap centered on employee and manager needs. Champion a persona-based approach that starts with the needs of managers and employees not the constraints of existing systems.
- Drive Product Strategy: Partner with stakeholders across People IT and Engineering to design connected intuitive workflows that unify multiple systems. Lead discovery user research and prioritization to deliver scalable data-driven solutions.
- Execute and Measure: Define success metrics (adoption efficiency engagement) and use insights to guide iteration and storytelling. Ensure each release delivers measurable impact and advances the unified experience.
- Influence and Collaborate: Work cross-functionally to align design engineering and leadership around the product vision. Communicate clearly build alignment across diverse stakeholders and represent the experience initiative in company-wide productivity and AI discussions.
What You Bring
- 5 years of product management experience ideally in enterprise or internal product environments.
- Proven success delivering products that connect multiple systems and drive measurable business impact.
- Strategic thinker who links product outcomes to organizational goals.
- Strong stakeholder management and storytelling skills to align diverse teams around a clear vision.
- Experience using AI analytics or data to enhance user experience and decision-making.
- Deep understanding of user-centered design data-informed development and modern governance practices (e.g. RBAC/ABAC).
- Comfortable leading through ambiguity and influencing without authority across technical and business teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with enterprise platforms like Workday ServiceNow or similar HR systems.
- Strong grasp of the employee lifecycle and how technology enables it.
- Proven track record in building internal productivity or HR experience products at scale.
Why Youll Love This Role
This is not a traditional IT role - its an opportunity to build one of Databricks most visible internal products touching every employee and manager. Youll define how the company experiences its own culture systems and data while shaping a product that embodies Databricks values of simplicity truth-seeking and innovation.
Youll be part of a forward-looking IT organization thats product-led AI-aware and design-obsessed and youll have the autonomy to create the future of how Databricks works.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
- 401(k) plan with company match and equity awards
- Flexible time off and paid parental leave
- Family planning and mental wellness programs
- Annual professional development fund and wellness reimbursements
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Time Management
- Data Analytics
- Analytical
- Agile
- Requirement Gathering
- Strategic thinking
- Visio
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Market Research
- UML
- Cross Functional Teams
About Company
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