Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
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Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 445 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
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What Databricks paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Delivery Solutions Architect” (Sales Engineers) in CA: $144k–$169k, median $150k.
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Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
Details and sources
- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- The US Department of Labor certified 445 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Databricks paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 4 certified filings for “Delivery Solutions Architect” (Sales Engineers) in CA: $144k–$169k, median $150k. Most were filed at wage level III (67%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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About the role
SLSQ427R457
We are looking for a Director, AI Sales (IC) to grow Databricks’ enterprise AI business and shape how we take AI to market. You will work directly with executives and technical teams to win strategic opportunities, get AI applications into production, and expand customer usage. You will also turn what works with customers into sales plays the broader field can execute, with direct influence on our AI product priorities and go-to-market strategy.
The impact you will have
• Deliver assigned AI consumption, bookings, and activation goals by prioritizing high-potential strategic accounts and converting underserved or unactivated demand into production usage.
• Increase the number of enterprise AI opportunities that achieve executive-backed technical validation and progress from experimentation to repeatable production workloads.
• Build and scale field plays around priority AI platform capabilities including AI Gateway, AI/ML training and serving infrastructure, Agent Bricks for custom agent development, etc. Creating measurable pipeline and consumption growth.
• Improve field execution by equipping and enabling account teams and specialists with repeatable guidance on AI use-case discovery, qualification, value articulation, pricing, sizing, and opportunity progression.
• Establish a scalable engagement model across sales, solutions architecture, business-unit enablement, and partners that increases specialist-influenced pipeline and accelerates customer decisions.
• Turn customer, field, and competitive feedback into clear product and go-to-market recommendations that strengthen Databricks’ position in the enterprise AI market.
• Build internal and external executive credibility for Databricks AI, increasing strategic sponsorship and expanding adoption across priority accounts.
What we look for
• Highly motivated enterprise sales or consulting experience in AI platforms, AI infrastructure, machine learning, developer platforms, or related technical software, with a track record of delivering growth against measurable goals.
• Experience creating go-to-market strategy in an emerging or ambiguous technical market, including the ability to prioritize across a broad, changing account and opportunity landscape.
• Deep working knowledge of enterprise AI architecture and the platform capabilities required to build, deploy, govern, and scale models, agents, and AI applications.
• Demonstrated ability to earn technical approval and executive sponsorship through workshops, onsite engagements, business cases, and clearly defined validation paths.
• Experience creating field enablement and repeatable GTM plays that improve how sellers qualify, position, price, size, and advance complex technical opportunities.
• Ability to influence internally as well as externally, aligning sales, solutions architecture, business-unit leaders, enablement teams, and partners around a common AI growth strategy.
• Self-directed, credible, and comfortable operating without a predefined account list or fully formed playbook while maintaining disciplined prioritization and execution.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipated utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for
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