Global Workplace Services Manager, Events & Experiences

The impact you will have:

• Global Experience Strategy: Define and execute a multi-region workplace experience strategy that drives office attendance, fosters company culture, and strengthens employee community. Include a comprehensive operational roadmap, and timeline.
• Event Operations & Execution: Direct and be able to lead and liaise with local workplace specialists and outsourced teams the end-to-end planning and delivery for high-visibility workplace events, including weekly happy hours, monthly activations, business meetings and trainings, executive/board dinners, product launch celebrations, holiday gatherings, and community activations; Command on-site physical events, serving as the primary point of escalation to supervise and manage real-time staffing logistics, and conduct troubleshooting to safeguard attendee safety and experience.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with internal stakeholders—including Internal Communications, People/HR, Executive Assistants, Corporate Marketing, IT/AV, Security, food and beverage teams, and local workplace leaders and specialists—to ensure seamless event delivery.
• Strategic Stakeholder management: Provide exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, and diplomatic capabilities to seamlessly collaborate with, influence, and align global cross-functional stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
• Global Standards & Playbooks: Develop standardized global playbooks, service-level agreements (SLAs), and operational guidelines for local workplace teams to execute events consistently across regions.
• Vendor Management: Oversee global contracts and relationships with event production vendors, catering teams, and local event suppliers.
• Budget & Measurement: Manage and build a multi-million-dollar global experience budget. Establish key metrics (NPS or similar, participation rates, cost-per-attendee) to measure event impact, connection, and inform future programming.
• Technical Fluency: Approach process and procedure with technical competency utilizing event management platforms, cross-functional collaborative tools (such as Cvent, Asana, Slack, Zoom, Epoch and mobile event applications), and AI to drive production timelines and organize project workforces and workflows.
• Mentor and Coach: Mentor and coach workplace specialists with a focus on events & experiences, as well as outsourced team members to grow in the field, and provide best in class experiences to the Databricks community.

What we look for:

• 8–12+ years leading workplace experience, experiential events, or hospitality programs within a fast-growing global tech company.
• Strong background in planning and driving large-scale, high-budget corporate events and multi-city experiential events on a global scale.
• Be well versed on in-office event execution and constraints.
• Demonstrated capacity to independently manage complex logistical operations with concurrent execution timelines.
• Deep experience in event production, including technical/AV integration, spatial planning, and high-touch VIP white-glove service.
• Great communication skills and the ability to draft robust communications plans for events, programs, and operations.
• Proven organizational skills, managing multiple work streams and projects
• Customer focused attitude - ensuring consistently high quality resolutions
• Experience working with a mix of outsourced partner teams, vendors, and FTEs.
• Experience with procurement, contract management and review, and vendor management.
• Experience with google suite.
• Experience with fresh service, asana, epoch programs preferred.

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.

Zone 1 Pay Range

$144,500—$198,650 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

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