The success and effectiveness of our growing engineering team is the most critical factor in helping customers succeed with Snowflake. Ensuring our internal developer tools and products enable our engineers to focus their full attention on new services and features ensures they can improve and expand our customers' experience with Snowflake.  We’re looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager who is passionate about developer experience and productivity.  You will have an immense impact on the company's entire engineering organization as you remove blockers and friction that slow our engineers, paving the road by excellent program execution and leadership. 

In this role you will work closely with our engineering teams to execute on the prioritized roadmap for accelerating our engineers' enjoyment and productivity.  This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our engineering systems. 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.

AS A SENIOR TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER, YOU WILL:

• Understand the developer journey on building, testing, and debugging code during both the inner and outer loop development stages, and ensure our tools and recommended flows cater to both
• Understand the various build tools (Bazel, Maven, Cmake, ninja, Gradle) and closely work with the internal customers in addressing their issues in collaboration with engineering and product management.
• Provide cross-functional leadership with Engineering and Product Management, and inter/intra team communications to deliver outstanding program outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to improve execution of the organization as a whole, to increase engineering productivity through tools and process improvements.
• Bring strong, data-driven and strategic technical judgment to decisions. 
• Work closely with Software Engineers across various teams and Product Managers to get high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle. 
• Amplify your impact by educating and mentoring the TPM and Engineering communities on program management best practices.

A SENIOR TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE IS EXPECTED TO HAVE:

• 7+ years of demonstrated industry experience and expertise leading medium to large complex projects in current cloud technologies. 
• Drive execution with a cross-functional team, ensuring that everyone is working towards the same goals and impact.
• Experience in building and improving the tools and processes used by engineers to build the services and features our customers use
• Ability to thrive and succeed in a dynamic environment not slowed down by ambiguity or competing priorities. 
• Familiarity with best practices around the software development lifecycle including building, testing, and deploying to production
• Experience working cross functionally with engineering, product management, and other functions involved in the product life cycle especially in earlier phases when product or architecture are not yet well defined 
• 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.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.