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Leadership salaries

32 Leadership listings with published compensation.

Overall

P10
$213,500
P25
$228,137
Median
$251,200
P75
$317,000
P90
$363,000

By seniority

Level P25 Median P75 N
Manager $228,137 $228,137 $317,000 24
Director $251,000 $278,150 $363,000 7

Top-paying Leadership roles

Anthropic ·
Manager, Applied AI (Startups)
📍 London, GB 🌐 Remote 💰 $412K–$495K 🛂 Visa sponsor 🛠 AI tools welcome · Manager
Manager, Applied AI (Startups) at Anthropic leading technical teams across EMEA. Build and mentor Applied AI Architects and Engineers, drive LLM adoption among early-stage startups, and establish Anthropic's technical brand in the region through hands-on engagements and ecosystem partnerships.
LLMClaude
74
AI-fluent
Discord ·
Director of Engineering, Developer Ecosystem
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $400K–$450K · Director
Director of Engineering at Discord leading commerce platform and player experience teams. Responsible for strategy, hiring, and scaling engineering teams supporting game developers and Discord's gaming ecosystem.
SDKAPIcommerce platform
39
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Cloudflare ·
Director, Developer Partner Strategy
📍 Austin, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $298K–$428K 🛠 AI tools welcome · Director
Director of Developer Partner Strategy at Cloudflare, overseeing channel and technology partnerships for the Developer Platform. Responsible for partner segmentation, co-sell enablement, integration launches, and partner-sourced revenue across global regions.
WorkersWorkers AIR2KVDurable ObjectsPages
36
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Anthropic ·
Manager of Forward Deployed Engineering, Applied AI
📍 London, GB 💰 $323K–$412K 🛠 AI tools welcome · Manager
Manager of Forward Deployed Engineering at Anthropic leading a team of engineers embedded with Fortune 500 enterprises to architect and deploy production AI agents. Owns delivery quality, vertical expertise, and scaling reusable patterns across industry segments.
73
AI-fluent
Pinterest ·
Engineering Manager II, Machine Learning – User Understanding
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $189K–$389K 🛠 AI tools welcome 🤝 AI-OK interview · Manager
Engineering Manager II leading the User Understanding team at Pinterest, responsible for building data and backend systems for user modeling, personalization, and recommendations at scale. Requires 6+ years of applied ML experience and 2+ years of people management.
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchKubernetesdistributed systems
73
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Manager, Applied AI Solutions Architecture - Partnerships
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $315K–$380K 🛂 Visa sponsor 🛠 AI tools welcome · Manager
Manager of Partner Solutions Architects at Anthropic, leading a team that enables deployment of Claude and Anthropic's AI products through system integrators and cloud partners. Responsible for partner enablement, joint solution development, and technical leadership on strategic partnerships.
ClaudeLLMAPIAWSGCPAzure
69
AI-fluent
Figma ·
Manager, Software Engineering - Expressive AI
📍 New York, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $258K–$376K · Manager
Manager, Software Engineering at Figma leading the Expressive AI team. Responsible for building and scaling generative AI capabilities integrated into Figma's design editor and product ecosystem. Reports to leadership and manages senior engineers.
LLMsdiffusion modelsimagevideo generation
71
AI-fluent
Figma ·
Manager, Software Engineering - Search & Recommendations
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $258K–$376K · Manager
Manager, Software Engineering at Figma leading the Search & Recommendations team. Oversees engineers building search infrastructure, reranking models, and AI agent context retrieval across the design platform.
OpenSearchElasticSearchLLMs
69
AI-fluent
Reddit ·
Senior Engineering Manager, Unified Embeddings Platform
📍 US 🌐 Remote-only 💰 $266K–$372K · Manager
Senior Engineering Manager at Reddit leading the Unified Embeddings Platform team. Responsible for architecting foundational ML embeddings infrastructure using graph neural networks and transformer models, serving Reddit's recommendation and content discovery systems across 121M daily active users.
Graph Neural NetworksTransformer ModelsPyTorchTensorFlow
71
AI-fluent
Databricks ·
Field CTO - America Industries
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $249K–$343K · Director
Field CTO at Databricks for Americas Industries, advising C-level executives at regulated enterprises on data platform and AI transformation strategy. Combines technical depth in Databricks products with executive relationship-building and industry consulting experience.
Databricksdata platformsanalyticscloud
43
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Databricks ·
Strategy and Execution Director
📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $199K–$322K · Director
Strategy and Execution Director at Databricks leading corporate strategy operationalization, process design, and cross-functional alignment to scale the business. Drives strategic initiatives through data-driven analysis, pilots, and measurable outcomes.
36
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Databricks ·
Director, GTM Strategy
📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $234K–$322K · Director
Director of GTM Strategy at Databricks designing multi-year go-to-market strategy, operating models, and initiatives. Leads cross-functional work across sales, marketing, finance, and product to align strategy with revenue objectives and resource allocation.
SQL
32
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Scale AI ·
Principal Architect
📍 Washington, US 💰 $257K–$321K · Principal
Principal Architect at Scale AI leading 50+ engineers on agentic AI products for government and enterprise customers. Responsible for technical strategy, executive stakeholder engagement, and large-scale distributed systems architecture.
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptKubernetesAWSGCP
76
AI-core
Databricks ·
Sr. Manager, AI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)
📍 US 🌐 Remote-only 💰 $232K–$320K · Manager
Sr. Manager of AI Forward Deployed Engineering at Databricks leading a professional services team delivering GenAI and ML transformation engagements to enterprise customers. Responsibilities include team building, executive relationship management, and shaping product strategy through customer insights.
AWSAzureGCPDatabricksApache SparkDelta Lake
55
AI-fluent
Figma ·
Manager, Figma for Education
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $185K–$317K · Director
Manager, Figma for Education at Figma. Lead global education strategy across K-12, higher ed, and bootcamps. Build and manage the education team, drive international expansion, and shape product features for educators.
28
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Figma ·
Manager, Solutions Consulting
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $185K–$316K · Manager
Manager, Solutions Consulting at Figma leading a team of Solutions Consultants across AMER. Responsible for team leadership, customer engagement, cross-functional collaboration with Sales and Product, and scaling the Solutions Consulting function for enterprise accounts.
Figma
26
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Datadog ·
Manager II, Engineering - Applied AI (NorAm)
📍 New York, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $234K–$300K · Manager
Manager II, Engineering at Datadog leading multiple teams building AI-powered features for observability. Owns technical direction, team culture, and shipping ML models and agentic systems from research through production.
LLMsagentic systemsanomaly detectiontime-series modelingNLPRAG
79
AI-core
Databricks ·
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Digital Native Business
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $192K–$264K · Manager
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering at Databricks leading a Solutions Architect team for digital-native customers. Responsible for hiring, developing, and managing technical customer-facing staff while driving adoption of the Databricks data and AI platform.
DatabricksApache SparkDelta LakeMLflow
41
AI-touching
Databricks ·
Manager, Field Engineering
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $171K–$264K · Manager
Manager, Field Engineering at Databricks leading a team of Solutions Architects for the Manufacturing Enterprise Segment. Responsible for hiring, coaching, and enabling pre-sales professionals focused on data and AI solutions.
Data warehousingbig datadata sciencemachine learningAI
36
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Databricks ·
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Financial Services
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $192K–$264K · Manager
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering at Databricks leading Solutions Architects for Financial Services. Manages technical pre-sales team, drives customer success with Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, and scales field engineering operations.
DatabricksApache SparkDelta LakeMLflow
34
AI-touching
Databricks ·
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Public Sector (Intel, Navy, Air Force)
📍 US 💰 $192K–$264K · Manager
Sr. Manager, Solutions Architects at Databricks leading technical pre/post-sales teams for Intelligence Community and Department of Defense customers. Focus on data engineering, analytics, and generative AI solutions.
Apache SparkDelta LakeMLflow
34
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Databricks ·
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Public Sector
📍 Washington, US 💰 $192K–$264K · Manager
Senior Manager of Solutions Architects at Databricks leading a Federal Systems Integrators and Defense Industrial Base technical sales team. Responsible for hiring, enabling, and scaling a team focused on data engineering, analytics, and generative AI solutions for government and defense customers.
Apache SparkDelta LakeMLflow
34
AI-touching
Databricks ·
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Emerging Enterprise
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $192K–$264K · Manager
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering at Databricks leading a Solutions Architect team focused on Financial Services customers. Responsible for team growth, customer success with data and AI workloads, and territory expansion in the mid-market segment.
Apache SparkDelta LakeMLflow
33
AI-touching
Databricks ·
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering - Healthcare and Life Sciences (Health Plans)
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $192K–$264K · Manager
Senior Manager of Field Engineering at Databricks leading a pre-sales Solutions Architect team focused on healthcare and life sciences accounts. Responsibilities include team leadership, driving sales targets, and ensuring customer success with Databricks data and analytics solutions.
Apache SparkDelta LakeMLflow
33
AI-touching
Databricks ·
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $192K–$264K · Manager
Sr. Manager, Field Engineering at Databricks leading a team of Solutions Architects in the Retail vertical. Responsible for hiring, developing, and managing pre-sales technical teams while partnering with sales to drive customer success and revenue growth on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
Databricksdata warehousingbig datamachine learning
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