Senior Manager, Real Estate & Workplace Services - India
Databricks · Posted Nov 4
Data, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI intelligence platform services
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About the role
Databricks is a data and AI company scaling its presence across India, and the Real Estate & Workplace Services (REWS) team operates the company's workplaces in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment. This role has end-to-end accountability for workplace services and employee experience across Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, with Bangalore as the largest operational hub. The Senior Manager will lead local workplace teams, manage outsourced Integrated Facilities Management partners, own India workplace budgets, and introduce scalable processes and AI-enabled solutions to support Databricks' growth.
What you will do
- Own and execute the workplace services strategy across Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, ensuring our workplaces support business growth, operational excellence and an exceptional employee experience.
- Lead all aspects of workplace operations, including facilities, catering, hospitality, amenities and employee services, ensuring consistent standards, efficiency and accountability across the portfolio.
- Build, coach and develop a high-performing workplace team, creating a culture of ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement while planning for future growth.
- Create welcoming, inclusive and engaging workplaces that reflect Databricks' culture, using employee feedback and data to continuously elevate services and experiences.
- Own strategic supplier relationships, including IFM and catering partners, driving performance, innovation, commercial value and service excellence.
- Own India workplace budgets, forecasting and financial performance, identifying opportunities to optimise costs, improve productivity and deliver measurable business value.
- Build trusted relationships with senior business leaders and cross-functional teams, influencing decisions, aligning priorities and proactively managing complex operational challenges.
- Partner with Real Estate, Design & Construction and other stakeholders to support office expansions, relocations and operational transitions, ensuring workplaces are ready to scale.
- Ensure all workplaces meet local regulatory and health and safety requirements, and maintain strong governance, risk management, and business continuity.
- Champion data-driven decision-making, AI and automation to simplify processes, improve operational performance and create scalable ways of working.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 15+ years of experience in workplace services, facilities management, real estate operations or hospitality, ideally within a fast-growing global technology company.
- Proven experience leading multi-site workplace operations, with strong knowledge of the Indian market, particularly Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute workplace strategies, manage complex operational challenges and drive measurable business outcomes.
- Strong people leadership experience, with a track record of building, coaching and developing high-performing teams, including outsourced service partners.
- Experience managing large-scale workplace operations, including facilities, catering, hospitality, employee experience and workplace services.
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, including budget ownership, forecasting, cost optimisation, procurement and contract management.
- Proven ability to manage strategic vendor relationships, particularly Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) providers, driving service excellence, accountability and continuous improvement.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership, navigate competing priorities and work effectively across functions.
- Strong understanding of Indian workplace regulations, health and safety, statutory compliance and operational risk management.
- Highly organised and comfortable managing multiple priorities, complex projects and competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- A data-driven and solutions-focused mindset, with experience using operational metrics, technology, AI and automation to improve efficiency and service delivery.
- A customer-focused approach with a passion for hospitality, employee experience and consistently delivering high-quality workplace services.
- Experience supporting office expansions, relocations, workplace mobilisation and change management.
- Proficiency with Google Workspace and collaborative workplace management tools; experience with Asana, Freshservice and similar platforms preferred.
- A proactive, adaptable leader with a startup mindset, strong judgment and the confidence to operate independently while knowing when to escalate or challenge decisions.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Databricks
Databricks is a data and artificial intelligence company that provides a unified Data Intelligence Platform built on a lakehouse architecture. The platform combines data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning, and generative AI to help organizations manage and scale their data assets natively across major cloud providers. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks enables thousands of enterprises worldwide to power advanced analytics, business intelligence, and autonomous AI agents.
- Industry
- Data and AI Platform Software
- Company size
- 17300+ employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $25.2B raised
- 2026-08-13Series L$5.0B
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Chief Financial Officer
Co-founder and Chief Architect
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