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Director, Agent & AI Search
Databricks · 🇺🇸 United States
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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 roles2 certified filings for “Director, Industry Solutions” (Operations Research Analysts) in NY: $247k–$247k, median $247k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 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.
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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
MKTQ125R59 Databricks is hiring a Director of Agent & AI Search to define how our brand shows up across every surface where buyers discover, evaluate, and choose data and AI platforms—from AI-powered answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to Google AI Overviews and traditional search. This leader will build and scale a global GEO product function from the ground up, shaping the strategy, AI tooling and workflows, team, and operating model that turns AI and organic discovery into a durable growth engine for Databricks. This is a build-the-function role: you'll set the strategy, do the hands-on work to prove it out, define how we measure success, and grow the team behind it. You'll sit at the center of content, product marketing, web, and demand gen — translating a fast-moving discipline into pipeline. The impact you will have: • Built a GEO function and operating model that reliably turns AI and organic discovery into a meaningful growth channel for Databricks, with a clear charter, roadmap, and engagement model for web, content, product marketing, and brand. • Significantly increased Databricks’ visibility and share of citations across priority AI answer engines (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews) so we consistently appear as a top recommended brand on high-intent product and category queries. • Demonstrably grown qualified organic and AI-referred traffic, conversions, and influenced pipeline for priority product lines and audiences by aligning GEO strategy and experimentation with business goals. • Stood up a robust GEO experimentation and measurement engine (tests on content structure, schema, semantic depth, technical changes) that produces a prioritized roadmap and measurable lifts in AI citation rate, sentiment, engagement, and downstream funnel performance. • Improved the technical health and AI crawlability of high-value pages in partnership with Web, Engineering, and Marketing Systems, so that both traditional search engines and AI assistants can reliably access, understand, and surface Databricks content. • Embedded GEO standards and playbooks across marketing and product teams , so new and refreshed content is consistently structured to be AI-citable and answer-focused, and GEO best practices show up in campaign, web, and content workflows by default. • Built and led a high-performing GEO team , with clear roles, mentorship, and development paths, and established an executive-ready reporting and insights function that earns trust from the VP, CMO, and other senior stakeholders. What we look for: • 10+ years in technical search, discovery, or adjacent domains, including meaningful time owning systems that drive organic or AI-powered discovery in a high-growth environment. • Deep technical foundation across web architecture, crawling and indexing, structured data/schema, Core Web Vitals, and log/crawl analysis, with a track record of working directly with engineers to ship changes at scale. • Proven experience designing and running experimentation programs (on content structure, schema, and technical changes) that produce prioritized roadmaps and measurable lifts in visibility, traffic, and downstream business KPIs. • Demonstrated success building from zero-to-one: defining a new function’s charter, roadmap, operating model, and metrics, and then hiring, coaching, and leading a team of ICs to deliver against it. • Track record of building, mentoring, and managing high-performing teams – including setting clear expectations, providing regular coaching and feedback, and developing ICs into senior, highly autonomous operators. • Strong analytical skills and comfort working hands-on with data and measurement tooling to connect AI/search performance to business impact and produce clear