Senior Technical Program Manager - Database Engineering

Snowflake•Menlo Park, CA

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. We’re at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. Snowflake is striving to become the cloud data platform of choice for everyone who needs affordable, reliable, scalable and elastic data management. Armed with great technical talent, our expanding product offering is designed for the cloud and automatically handles infrastructure, optimization, availability, data protection, and more so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it. And we’re doing this across all the major cloud providers, breaking new ground in what it means to be multi-cloud and cloud agnostic. We are looking to hire an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager who can be part of a world-class team that builds Snowflake’s product and cloud platform. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact by building a flexible, large scale, high-performance, and resilient platform for Snowflake features and services. Be part of the vision to create the best data cloud platform. Our ‘get it done’ culture allows everyone at Snowflake to have an equal opportunity to innovate on new ideas, create work with a lasting impact, and excel in a culture of collaboration.

Requirements

5+ years of demonstrated industry experience and expertise leading medium to large complex engineering projects in current cloud technologies
Ability to thrive and succeed in a dynamic environment not slowed down by ambiguity or competing priorities
Experience working cross functionally with engineering, product management, and other functions involved in the product life cycle
Strong program management skills with technical and business acumen
Effective verbal and written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical groups
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, consultation and organizational skills
BS/MS/PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields or equivalent practical experience (e.g. familiarity with SQL, Python, Data)

Responsibilities

Be responsible for defining and delivering important programs with broad organizational, business and technical impact.
Provide cross-functional leadership with Engineering and Product Management, and inter/intra team communications to deliver outstanding program outcomes.
Bring strong, data-driven and strategic technical judgment to decisions.
Be hands-on, working closely with Software Engineers and Product Managers to design, build, and deliver the next generation of Snowflake services and apps.
Amplify your impact by educating and mentoring the TPM and Engineering communities on program management best practices.
Identify opportunities to improve execution of the organization as a whole, to increase engineering productivity through tools and light-weight processes. (Snowflake happens to have a nice data platform to use :-)