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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, a