Databricks
Sales / Partnerships LeadStrategicAug 6, 2026

Test cloud-field joint discovery outcomes

A growing partnership can create more possible narratives than a field team can carry.

Technical relevance, buyer urgency, and partner incentives do not always point to the same starting point.

Every vendor says they unify things. I need to know which business problem we’re solving first.

Hana Horvat · Vice President of Data and AI

Sets enterprise priorities for data modernization, real-time decisioning, and AI delivery across business units.

What pulls against what

  • broad platform narrative vs. specific buyer outcome
  • field speed vs. evidence quality
  • cloud relevance vs. customer distinctiveness
  • early momentum vs. learnable experimentation

What is at stake

A focused joint motion could create durable demand; a vague one will consume partner attention without a repeatable customer outcome

Why Databricks

At Databricks, cloud partnerships often benefit from a focused customer outcome before broader field activation takes hold.

Written for

Strategic alliances innovatorMarket-shaping partnerships leadCommercial experimenter

This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.