Sr. Product Manager, Data Governance
- Salary
- $148,800 - $204,525
- Level
- Lead
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
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At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines.
And we're only getting started.
You will be a Sr Product Manager for Unity Catalog (https://databricks.com/product/unity-catalog). Unity Catalog is the metadata and governance foundation for the Lakehouse, providing not only fine grained security and governance capabilities, but also performance and productivity capabilities such as lineage, search, discovery, auditing, and compliance, for our customers' data and AI assets.
This role is requires coordinating all product activities from vision to implementation, including engaging large enterprise customers to understand their needs, developing long-term product strategy, defining product roadmaps, working with engineering to build those products, and coordinating with various internal stakeholders (both pre- and post-launch) to ensure product success.
The impact you will have:
- Design and launch new governance and security capabilities as part of Unity Catalog.
- Define and build new platform services that enable Databricks’ data & AI product teams (ML/AI, Data Science & Engineering, Data Warehousing, etc.) to easily add new workload-specific governance capabilities that enhance the value of Unity Catalog and the Lakehouse.
- Take new features you envision from ideation / exploration with customers to full launch and rollout, including a marketing plan, field enablement, and broad customer adoption across all our segments.
- Bring insights about the data governance persona, our customers, and the market at large to the engineering and leadership team by working closely with our customers and partners.
What we look for:
- 5+ years of enterprise B2B Product Management experience
- Educational background in computer science or related engineering practice.
- Experience working with databases and/or data warehouses, security, and catalogs.
- Experience building user-facing products for Data Analysts, Scientists, and/or Engineers.
- Strong track record of delivering products with cross-functional teams common to the enterprise software industry (field engineering, sales, marketing, partnerships, etc.).
- Experience in working closely with enterprise customers and ISV partners in the data market.
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 2 Pay Range
$148,800—$204,525 USD
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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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The team: Product HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 36 open in Product. 5 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in August: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Databricks (36 of 36), Unity (36 of 36), SQL (14 of 36), Machine Learning (13 of 36), Python (11 of 36), Azure (10 of 36), Spark (9 of 36)
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