Product Finance Director, R&D Capital Allocation & Engineering Operations
Databricks — Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington
Posted 2026-10-16
(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. Measure the end-to-end cost of AI-enabled engineering, including the second-order impact on cloud spend, and partner with Engineering to optimize