Lead Organizational Development Architect
at Databricks
Mountain View, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, New York, United States
GAQ426R306
While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.
Databricks is one of the world’s fastest-growing data and AI companies—an industry leader transforming how organizations harness the power of their data. As we scale rapidly across the globe, we’re seeking an experienced, impact-driven Senior Organizational Development Architect.
This team takes on the highest-impact, hardest People challenges — the ones that directly affect how fast the company can grow, how well teams perform, and how leaders scale. These aren’t routine programs. They’re complex, company-wide efforts that need fresh thinking, tight execution, and real adoption — from defining the problem to aligning executives to making change stick across thousands of employees.
You will start by building a global strategy and solutions to uplevel our global interviewer capability, and help us drive hiring excellence. This role reports to the Head of Organizational Development, under our broader Talent Management org.
The Impact You’ll Have
- Anchor Mission: Interviewer Enablement & Certification: You will own the global roadmap for how we certify and enable "Brickster" interviewers. You will design the certification approach, build multi-persona enablement assets, and create the tracking and feedback loops that ensure our hiring bar remains elite as we scale.
- Strategic Partnership: You will act as a consultative "architect" for our senior leaders and People Partners, moving beyond program management to diagnosis our hardest problems and designing org-wide solutions at scale.
- Career Framework Architecture: Design and build success profiles and career ladders that define the key capabilities for our most critical roles, ensuring they are built for a high-growth, AI-first future.
- Upleveling Hiring Process & Assessment : Partner with Talent Acquisition to embed success profiles into our hiring workflows, transforming how we assess talent and ensuring our interview process is a competitive advantage.
- AI-Driven Org Design: Lead the "Future of Work" conversation with the business. Analyze how AI is shifting roles and workflows, and design org structures that optimize for human-AI collaboration and maximum productivity.
About You
- Experience: 12–15+ years of experience, likely from a top management consulting firm or a hyper-growth tech environment where you have built programs from scratch.
- Consultative & Curious: You operate with a “business-first mindset” - what problem are we trying to solve for the company? You’re eager to understand Databricks’ technology, customer value prop, culture, and the problem at hand to build solutions that are right for Databricks rather than defaulting to previous playbooks.
- Complex Problem Solver: You think from first principles - seeking to deeply understand and diagnose the problem you’re trying to solve. You have a proven ability to deconstruct it into a structured, multi-quarter roadmap that materially impacts a global function or region.
- Strategic Influencer: You can effectively influence VPs and SVPs, using a combination of your knowledge of our business and data. You routinely drive alignment across complex, cross-functional stakeholder groups to deliver the right solutions. Your key partners include: business leaders, Talent Acquisition, People Partners, Strategy & Finance teams.
- AI-Builder Mindset: You are deeply curious about how AI is fundamentally changing job descriptions and organizational structures. You not only use data and AI tools to accelerate your own thinking and execution - but architect AI-first solutions for the business.
- Execution: You bring a programmatic approach to driving adoption of your solutions as scale (1,000s of Bricksters). You can turn your understanding of the problem into strong program design, a robust change and enablement plan, and own the measurement strategy to show that your programs are truly making an impact
- HR Domain Expertise: You have a broad and deep background in one or more of the following domain areas: Org Development, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition. You are highly aware of industry changes and can translate that into a strategy that makes sense for Databricks.
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 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 anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
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 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 anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
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