Manager, Enterprise Presales - Kansai Region

Databricks
JapanPosted 5 March 2026

Job Description

<p><strong>Req ID</strong>: FEQ427R250<br><strong>Location</strong>: Osaka, Japan<br><br>As a Manager, Presales, you will build and lead a team of pre-sales Solutions Architects focusing on Enterprise accounts in Kansai region. Your experience partnering with the sales organization will help close revenue with the right approach whilst coaching new sales and pre-sales team members to work together. You will guide and get involved to enhance your team's effectiveness; be an expert at communicating complex, business value-focused solutions; support complex sales cycles; and build relationships with key stakeholders in enterprise companies. You will report to the Technical General Manager of the Japan region.</p> <p><strong>The impact you will have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Manage hiring, building the pre-sales team of Solutions Architects</li> <li>Rapidly scale the designated Field Engineering segment organization without sacrificing quality</li> <li>Build a collaborative culture within a rapid-growth team. To embody and promote Databricks' customer-obsessed, teamwork and diverse culture</li> <li>Support increase Return on investment of SA involvement in sales cycles</li> <li>Promote a solution and value-based selling field-engineering organization</li> <li>Display an understanding of business needs and revenue potential for accounts in the assigned region</li> <li>Build Databricks' brand in Japan in partnership with the Marketing and Sales team</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we look for:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience in a PreSales Manager role in developing, managing and building a team of successful Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS professionals</li> <li>Experience pitching technical solutions into Enterprise companies in Kansai Region</li> <li>Have experience scaling and mentoring field and technical teams from scratch</li> <li>Knowledgeable in and passionate about data-driven decisions, AI, and Cloud software models</li> <li>Great at instituting processes for technical field members to improve efficiency</li> <li>Market experience of the Japan Region with verbal and written fluency in the local language</li> <li>Background experience in Data Architecture such as Data Engineering / Database technologies or Data Science</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>About Databricks</strong></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on <span style="color: rgb(255, 54, 33);"><a style="color: rgb(255, 54, 33);" href="https://twitter.com/databricks" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/databrickssource=gmailust=1700237575733000usg=AOvVaw03FL8fJvOD97ytN02f5G2C">Twitter</a>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 54, 33);" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/company/databrickssource=gmailust=1700237575733000usg=AOvVaw15dLk3q8VxTfHEgCUg7NSt">LinkedIn</a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 54, 33);" href="https://www.facebook.com/databricksinc" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/databricksincsource=gmailust=1700237575733000usg=AOvVaw39EcncitnlqV72EG2-RqXJ">Facebook</a></span>.<br><br><strong>Benefits<br><br></strong></span>At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit <a href="https://www.mybenefitsnow.com ... (truncated, view full listing at source)