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Climb

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2026

💼 Consulting

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Enterprise • SaaS

Climb is the Databricks-native Data & AI consultancy that builds production-grade enterprise AI by focusing on the data foundation, outcome-aligned fixed-scope engagements, and senior delivery teams. They offer Databricks Basecamps—guided, time-boxed projects that move AI or data modernization priorities from diagnostic to production in weeks—plus solutions, fixed-price projects, and dedicated teams. Climb emphasizes Databricks engineering, governance (Unity Catalog), migrations, AI/ML, next-gen analytics, and agent deployments, with reusable IP (Climb AI Runtime), senior Databricks-certified staff, and measurable KPIs for each engagement.

📋 Description

• Lead blueprint engagements: current-state assessment, gap analysis, and a prioritized, sequenced initiative roadmap. • Run executive discovery with C-Suite leadership and Boards to surface strategic goals, constraints, and success criteria. • Quantify the value: size the business problem, model TCO and ROI, and define the pilot, MVP, success criteria, and timeline. • Build board-ready transformation cases that connect AI investment to value-creation metrics: revenue per head, time-to-outcome, margin, and delivery predictability. • Facilitate executive alignment workshops that move stakeholders from awareness to decision. • Provide executive oversight across transformation programs, guiding AI Leads through strategic decisions, cross-workstream alignment, and evolving business priorities. • Serve as the executive advisor and escalation point through delivery close; act as the escalation point that unblocks technical and political issues. • Shape follow-on scope throughout delivery; by handoff you have a working hypothesis for the execution program and present it at readout. • Surface expansion signals across the client organization and route them to the account team. • Own and continuously evolve Climb's AI transformation methodology, including blueprint frameworks, value models, executive workshops, and delivery playbooks. • Mentor AI Leads on executive engagement, transformation strategy, value creation, and consultative leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years across software, technical consulting, or technology strategy, with demonstrable depth on both the engineering and product sides of a software organization. • 5+ years leading transformation, strategy, or technical advisory engagements with engineering and product organizations. • Proven track record building and presenting technology transformation roadmaps to C-level and board audiences. • Demonstrated experience in value-based scoping (TCO/ROI), authoring requirements documents, and managing delivery to measurable outcomes. • Experience sizing and sequencing multi-team, multi-quarter transformation programs. • Hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted development and agentic tooling: you don't configure it daily, but you speak the language credibly and know what is and isn't real. • Professional services delivery experience with scope ownership and deliverable accountability.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary with performance-based bonuses • MacBook Pro and swag kit so you can do your best work • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance • Generous holidays, flexible PTO, and remote-first work environment • Professional development budget including Databricks and cloud certifications • Spot bonuses for relevant certifications • Conference attendance and thought leadership opportunities • Collaborative, low-ego culture with direct access to leadership • Opportunity to shape a growing practice from the ground floor