Sr. IT Product Manager - Employee Experience
Lead strategy and delivery for a zero-to-one People Pod building agentic AI workflows and automation to unify employee experience across HR systems at Databricks. Requires 5+ years PM experience, HR domain expertise, and strong technical fluency with AI/automation.
About the job
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 engineering, design, and senior leadership around the automated product vision, evangelizing the roadmap in company-wide productivity and AI discussions.
What You Bring
- 5+ years of product management experience, with a proven track record leading specialized, highly technical, or zero-to-one enterprise and internal product initiatives.
- Specialist Domain Expertise: Deep background in human resources and people-process functions, specifically with concrete experience in hiring, talent acquisition, employee experience and performance management.
- Agentic Automation & Advanced AI: Hands-on experience or a strong technical understanding of agentic automation, LLM orchestration, and modern AI-driven workflows to streamline operational bottlenecks.
- Strategic & Product Thought Leadership: Demonstrated ability to own a product domain end-to-end, linking automation outcomes directly to corporate scaling and employee experience goals.
- Technical & Data Fluency: Strong understanding of building on advanced data platforms, user-centered design, data-informed development, and modern enterprise governance practices (e.g., RBAC/ABAC).
- Ambiguity Champion: Highly comfortable leading through extreme ambiguity, managing complex stakeholder landscapes, and collaborating directly with engineering pods to build applications from scratch.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing custom productivity applications or automation layers on data platforms (such as Databricks).
- Familiarity with enterprise HR ecosystems like Workday, ServiceNow, or similar core systems of record, specifically regarding their API limitations and integration surfaces.
Skills
Product Management, Agentic Automation, Llm Orchestration, Ai-Driven Workflows, Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Workday, Servicenow, Rbac/Abac, Data Platforms
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