Principal Event Marketing Manager, Data + AI World Tour

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Reporting to the VP, Global Events, this Principal Event Marketing Manager at Databricks will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders across the globe to develop our events strategy for the 20+ stop Data+AI World Tour. In this role, you will ensure the delivery of industry leading and high-impact events for our global audiences as an extension of the Data+AI flagship event. You will act as the global program lead, establishing the playbook and identifying opportunities for improved scalability, best practices, and brand presence that enhances Databricks market leadership across regions. This role will also be responsible for the event management and production of our top tier events. Other special projects may include onsite event management at the Data+AI flagship event and strategic initiatives.

• Content strategy: Within 12–18 months, establish and scale a content strategy for the Data+AI World Tour that increases session attendance and on-demand views by 25–30% and drives a meaningful uplift in content-attributed pipeline from target personas.
• Sponsorship program: Grow the World Tour sponsorship program to deliver a year-over-year increase in sponsorship revenue and sourced pipeline while maintaining or improving partner satisfaction scores.
• Operational efficiency: Reduce end-to-end event execution cycle times and budget variance through streamlined workstreams and repeatable processes, enabling the team to support more stops or higher program complexity without additional headcount.
• Ensure seamless flow of leads from events into marketing automation systems and to sales team stakeholders to maximize pipeline generation and conversion
• Stakeholder alignment: Build a reliable global operating model with Executive, Marketing, Sales, and regional leaders so that tour stops launch on time with agreed goals, content, and speaker participation, and jointly owned KPIs (pipeline, attendance, NPS) are consistently met or exceeded.

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Zone 1 Pay Range $192,000—$264,000 USD

Zone 2 Pay Range $172,800—$237,600 USD

Zone 3 Pay Range $163,200—$224,400 USD

Zone 4 Pay Range $153,600—$211,200 USD

• 10+ years of event marketing experience, of which 3+ years experience leading large scale world tours
• Experience driving alignment and managing complex, multi-stakeholder global programs

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.

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