Sr Product Manager, Employee Experience

Sr Product Manager, Employee Experience

Location: San Francisco, CA or Mountain View, CA

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About Databricks

At Databricks, our mission is to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems and that starts with empowering our own employees. The Databricks IT organization is a product-led team that builds intelligent, scalable systems to make every Brickster’s workday simpler, faster, and more connected. We’re reimagining how employees and managers interact with internal tools; designing a unified, AI-driven experience that integrates data, insights, and workflows across the company.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager (L5) to lead strategy and delivery for our newly formed People Pod. This role is a "zero to one" initiative focused on building next-generation agentic workflows on top of Databricks to fundamentally enhance internal employee experience tools and extend capabilities far beyond traditional systems like Workday.

The Opportunity

Managers and employees at Databricks interact with dozens of systems every week, from Workday to performance and onboarding tools, often switching contexts and duplicating effort. This team is responsible for defining and delivering product vision to simplify and unify the employee experience, designing an integrated, intelligent automation layer that sits on top of our systems of record to surface the right tasks, insights, and actions in one place.

As the Product Manager for the People Pod, you will own a highly visible, zero-to-one product area, driving product thought leadership to shape how Databricks scales its internal workforce lifecycle through advanced automation and specialist domain applications.

What You’ll Do

• Own the Zero-to-One Vision: Define and evolve the long-term strategy for the unified employee and manager experience, specifically focusing on advanced agentic workflows and automation tailored to the People function.
• Drive Product Strategy & Automation: Partner closely with developers, engineering teams, and stakeholders across People Operations and IT to design, build, and deploy intelligent agentic automation workflows on the Databricks platform.
• Domain Leadership: Serve as the primary product leader specializing in talent acquisition, hiring processes, and performance management workflows, transforming standard internal tools into highly optimized, automated experiences.
• Execute and Measure: Define success metrics (adoption, efficiency, engagement, automation accuracy) and use data-driven insights to guide rapid iteration and development within an evolving field.
• Influence and Collaborate: Report directly to VP of Product in IT and work cross-functionally to align eng