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Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Sports
Databricks · 🇺🇸 Northeast - United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- 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. USCIS also records 78 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- 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. 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 roles4 certified filings for “Sr. Manager, Field Engineering” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in TX: $209k–$218k, median $209k. Most were filed at wage level IV (75%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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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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. USCIS also records 78 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
FEQ427R388 As an Senior Manager, Field Engineering, you will lead a broader team of technical customer advisors and help shape the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for a significant Field Engineering portfolio. You will scale impact beyond your immediate team through other leaders, cross-functional initiatives, reusable practices, and strong customer and partner relationships. This role typically leads Field Engineering professionals across a broader portfolio and may include responsibility for one or two managers. Depending on the assignment, you may support a major segment, a multi-country portfolio, or an equivalent area of complexity. THE IMPACT YOU WILL HAVE • Lead, coach, and develop Field Engineering professionals and emerging people leaders across a broader portfolio. • Set team strategy and roadmaps that connect customer needs, technical priorities, business outcomes, and broader Field Engineering goals. • Increasingly influence the most important priorities for the portfolio and help teams see around corners over the next 3–6–12 months. • Partner with Sales and cross-functional leadership to shape technical-win strategy, resource allocation, customer coverage, and execution plans. • Build trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders and use customer, market, and competitive insight to improve account and portfolio strategy. • Establish repeatable inspection mechanisms across teams, including portfolio reviews, customer-health reviews, technical-risk reviews, and escalation processes. • Coach leaders and senior practitioners through complex customer, technical, competitive, organizational, and performance situations. • Build and share playbooks, tools, enablement, and operating mechanisms that increase productivity and consistency beyond one team. • Influence Product, Engineering, Support, Professional Services, Marketing, and Partners on customer requirements, product gaps, and cross-functional priorities. • Use AI and automation to create one-to-many impact across enablement, execution, forecasting, customer planning, and team productivity. • Model and strengthen a culture of psychological safety, inclusion, accountability, continuous learning, and high performance. WHAT WE LOOK FOR • Significant experience leading technical customer-facing teams in enterprise software, cloud, data, AI, analytics, technical consulting, or a related environment. • Proven ability to hire bar-raising talent, develop leaders, manage performance, and make thoughtful decisions about team structure, capability mix, and resourcing. • Experience leading through other leaders or serving as a senior leader on a complex team. • Strong strategic judgment: you can identify the highest-impact priorities, allocate resources, manage risk, and connect near-term execution to longer-term goals. • A track record of building repeatable operating mechanisms, playbooks, tools, or programs that scale beyond your immediate team. • Ability to influence senior internal partners across Sales, Professional Services, Solutions Architecture, Marketing, Partners, Product, Engineering, and Support. • Strong customer-advisory capability, including the ability to guide senior stakeholders through complex technical and business decisions. • Proficient understanding of data and AI technologies, cloud architecture, governance, security, networking, and enterprise adoption considerations. • An AI-first, builder mindset with evidence of applying emerging tools or approaches to improve customer outcomes and organizational effectiveness. • Demonstrated alignment with Databricks Culture Principles and the ability to translate them into clear expectations and daily team practices. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS • Experience managing technical cust