# Director, Paid Media at Databricks

- Company: Databricks (databricks.com)
- Location: United States
- Places: United States
- Posted: 2026-07-21
- Apply: https://databricks.com/company/careers/open-positions/job?gh_jid=8638631002
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/director-paid-media-databricks-kn71vry9ke3n4bbhrhapyxr80x8hcerm

## The posting

Director, Paid Media
Databricks · United States

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Databricks is seeking a **Director, Paid Media**to lead our global media planning function and define how paid media supports brand awareness, demand generation, and pipeline growth across the full funnel.

You will lead a team of global media planners to develop audience-first, account-focused strategies that engage both technical practitioners and executive decision-makers across priority accounts. This highly cross-functional role partners closely with Corporate Brand, Product Marketing, Integrated Campaigns, Field Marketing, Analytics, and external agencies to deliver cohesive, data-driven media strategies at scale.

**The impact you will have:**

- Guide the development of cross-channel media strategies that deliver measurable year-over-year increases in brand awareness, target account engagement, and pipeline contribution across integrated campaigns and priority product areas.
- Build and scale a high-performing global media strategy organization by hiring and developing top talent, increasing talent density, scalability, and strategic output over time.
- Create an environment of continuous learning with clear expectations, coaching, and growth opportunities, resulting in improved team performance, stronger bench strength, and readiness to support evolving business priorities.
- Establish and scale global media planning frameworks, processes, and best practices that improve consistency and efficiency across regions and campaigns, reducing planning cycle times and increasing adoption of standard methodologies.
- Align media investment strategy and budget allocation to business goals so that a greater share of spend is directed toward the highest-impact audiences, channels, and programs, improving return on media investment and pipeline efficiency.
- Ensure media strategies are grounded in strong audience insights and aligned to key practitioner and executive personas, increasing reach, penetration, and engagement within priority accounts.
- Implement consistent global measurement frameworks and executive-ready reporting in partnership with Analytics, improving visibility into media’s contribution to pipeline and revenue and enabling faster optimization cycles.
- Model and reinforce Databricks’ culture principles while staying ahead of evolving media trends and best practices through a structured test-and-learn agenda, resulting in a collaborative, high-performance team and continuous improvements in overall media effectiveness.

**What we look for:**

- 10+ years of experience in media strategy, digital marketing, or integrated marketing in a B2B environment within SaaS or enterprise technology.
- Proven experience leading global media planning efforts across multiple channels and funnel stages, with demonstrated impact on pipeline, engagement, or revenue metrics.
- Demonstrated experience hiring, developing, and managing teams of individual contributors, including early and mid-career talent, with a track record of building high-performing teams.
- Strong understanding of full-funnel marketing measurement, including brand, demand, pipeline, and revenue metrics.
- Ability to set clear objectives, prioritize effectively, and empower teams to deliver results with autonomy.
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with experience driving alignment across matrixed organizations.
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear strategi