Partner Sales Director, Manufacturing & Energy

SLSQ227R148 As Partner Sales Director for Manufacturing & Energy, you own the partner go-to-market strategy for the vertical — architecting joint solutions with our most strategic partners, building durable pipeline, and holding partners accountable to execution that converts to partner-sourced and partner-influenced consumption. This is a highly visible, strategic role: you set the agenda across Sales, Field Engineering, Marketing, Partner Solution Architecture, and the partner ecosystem, and you carry Databricks' Manufacturing & Energy partner narrative to senior partner and customer executives. You will own and grow relationships with strategic partners across the vertical — including global and regional systems integrators such as Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini, and IBM, and specialist data and AI partners — and you bring deep industry knowledge and an operator's mindset powered by modern AI tooling. Reporting to the Senior Director, Partner Sales. The impact you will have: Build and own the pipeline engine — architect the Manufacturing & Energy partner GTM strategy and convert it into durable, partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline and consumption across the vertical. Drive partner execution and accountability — hold strategic SI/ISV partners to joint commitments; inspect co-sell motions rigorously and remove friction so partners execute effectively against shared pipeline and revenue goals. Lead solution development with partners — co-create differe