Senior Director of Engineering and Product Recruiting

Snowflake • Menlo Park, CA

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About The Position

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
As the Senior Director of Engineering and Product Recruiting at Snowflake, you will be a key architect of our technical growth, reporting directly to the Chief People Officer. This role involves partnering with leadership to scale the technical organization, shape a team of talented recruiters and sourcers, and serve as a strategic thought partner to Engineering and Product leadership. This is a high-velocity growth story where we move fast and deliver talent even faster.

Requirements

• Experience: 12+ years in Talent Acquisition, with 7+ years specifically managing scaling teams for Engineering and Product organizations.
• Manager of Managers: Deep experience managing, inspiring, coaching, and scaling a team of senior technical recruiters and sourcers.
• Technical & Product Fluency: Broad-based recruiting experience in enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale data platforms.
• Data-Driven Influence: Advanced ability to leverage data for insights and to influence recruitment process, talent strategy, and critical hiring initiatives.
• Relationship Building: Effective at building broad internal relationships across the organization and partnering closely with HRBPs, compensation, finance, and R&D operations. We are looking for a team player who also drives a high performance team..

Nice To Haves

• Hyper-growth Track Record: Proven experience scaling an engineering organization from mid-size to thousands of employees within a high-growth and highly technical engineering environment.
• Senior Stakeholder Presence: Extensive experience influencing, aligning, and coaching C-suite and VP-level technical leaders.
• R&D Strategic Vision: Experience partnering with Product and Engineering leadership to align hiring plans with complex product roadmaps and technical workload optimization.
• Selection Innovation: Demonstrated success in implementing rigorous, performance-based selection methodologies to maintain high talent density.
• Architectural Literacy: Ability to communicate effectively with engineering leaders about distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and AI/ML talent markets.
• Global Complexity: Experience managing and building distributed recruiting teams across multiple international regions to support global R&D centers.

Responsibilities

• People Leadership: Inspire, mentor, develop, and build a team of senior skilled technical recruiters and sourcers.
• C-Suite & Executive Partnership: Act as a primary advisor to the Product and Engineering Leadership teams , influencing and coaching senior leaders and maintaining rigor towards recruiting performance, hiring quality, and team scalability.
• Full-Spectrum Remit: Lead the end-to-end talent strategy for the R&D organization, ranging from overseeing early career SWE recruitment,Product Manager searches, and the precision placement of senior technical leadership roles globally.
• Performance Management: Focus on business impact and outcomes by designing a "go-forward" technical recruiting organization and innovating our recruiting model.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure the rapid integration of an AI-native mindset, recruiting process excellence, candidate attraction methodologies, and technology utilization. This role requires the recruiting leader to ensure data accuracy, generate analytics and insights, and experiment with talent programs
• Talent Evolution: Evolve hiring manager recruiting skills, focusing on elevating candidate quality by leveraging analytics, and sharpening new-hire selection criteria for technical and product roles.
• Organizational Scaling: Continually evolve hiring practices, talent positioning, and recruiting org structures that will scale alongside our technical business.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed