About this role
Databricks has a vacancy for the role of Product Finance Director, R&D Capital Allocation & Engineering Operations in Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington. The listing was posted on Oct 16, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
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(GAQ427R231)
About the role
As Databricks scales at unprecedented velocity, how we invest our R&D capital—both human and compute—is critical to our scale. We are looking for a Product Finance leader to own R&D capital allocation and engineering operations. You will be a key finance partner to our senior Engineering and Product Operations leaders, with a mandate that spans product-level R&D ROI, global workforce and location strategy, and the rapidly evolving economics of AI-enabled software development.
The impact you will have
Drive product-level ROI and R&D capital allocation
Establish frameworks to measure product-level ROI across a fast-moving platform like Databricks where engineering velocity is extremely high.
Operationalize ROI metrics so they directly inform product investment and resource allocation decisions.
Define engineering economics in the AI era
Partner with Engineering to model how AI developer tooling and internal token spend scale alongside headcount, quantifying the tradeoff between human capital and compute capital.