Strategic Programs Director, Snowflake
Data Analytics Office
This role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud
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Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
This role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to mobilize the world's data.
Role
Who you are
- This highly collaborative position interfaces across diverse data teams and business units, making it ideal for someone with a strong strategic mindset and operational execution skills
- 10+ years of experience in program management, data operations, or related fields within a technology or data-driven organization
- Demonstrated experience implementing data governance, metric standardization, and change management practices at scale
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage complex programs and drive alignment across multiple stakeholders
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a results-driven approach to program execution
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of influencing leaders and fostering collaboration across teams
- Passion for building scalable processes, embedding governance models, and promoting operational excellence
- Familiarity with data analytics, engineering workflows, and BI tools is preferred
- Experience working in high-growth environments with dynamic and evolving data needs is a plus
What the job involves
- The Principal Program Manager, Data & Analytics Office will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving the strategic direction, operational efficiency, and scalability of the Data & Analytics organization at Snowflake
- This leader will be responsible for executing high-impact cross-functional programs, establishing governance frameworks, and embedding change management practices to ensure data consistency, reliability, and alignment across the enterprise
- As a key influencer within the organization, this role will drive harmonization of data practices, enforce metrics alignment, and ensure the Data & Analytics team operates as a unified, high-performing function
- Oversee and optimize strategic programs across the Data & Analytics organization to enhance the influence and impact of data on business decisions
- Data Governance and Metrics Consistency: Implement governance models to drive consistency in metrics definitions, enforce change management practices around metric adjustments, and ensure alignment across teams
- Snow on Snow: Scale and optimize internal Snowflake-on-Snowflake programs for the data team to maximize the value of data in customer engagements and internal operations
- Documentation and Best Practices: Standardize reporting methodologies and BI tool usage for internal and external stakeholders, creating clear frameworks and documentation to promote transparency and accessibility
- Internal Customer Feedback: Oversee mechanisms such as NPS surveys, beta testing, and user studies to gather insights from GTM, Finance, and Data teams, fostering continuous improvement and engagement
- Hiring Consistency and Efficiency: Develop scalable, standardized hiring frameworks that promote consistency and operational excellence across all data teams
- Dependency Planning and Data Contracts: Own and manage inter-team dependencies by formalizing data SLAs and contracts, ensuring seamless collaboration across Data Engineering, Data Science, and Business teams
- Customer Zero: Drive initiatives for the Data & Analytics team to serve as early adopters ("Customer Zero") of Snowflake’s internal products, facilitating feedback loops and product enhancements
- Training and Tool Standardization: Ensure uniform training and adoption of BI and analytics tools across the organization, fostering a consistent and repeatable data-driven culture
- Establish and refine operational cadences, processes, and governance frameworks to ensure programs are scalable and repeatable, minimizing reliance on ad-hoc execution
- Develop change management protocols for new tool rollouts, metric changes, and process updates to ensure smooth transitions and minimize disruption
- Implement KPIs to measure program effectiveness, track operational maturity, and identify areas for continuous improvement
- Serve as a strategic advisor to senior data leaders, providing insights and frameworks that enhance organizational efficiency and accountability
- Partner with cross-functional teams, including Data Engineering, Product, Marketing, and GTM, to align data initiatives with broader company objectives and ensure cohesive program execution
- Facilitate cross-team workshops, drive consensus on data and analytics priorities, and establish forums for ongoing knowledge sharing
- Lead communication efforts to ensure program goals, milestones, and impact metrics are clearly articulated and well-understood by stakeholders at all levels
Our take
Developed as a fresh alternative to the archaic systems of data governance and information silos, Snowflake is a frictionless cloud data platform that removes the barriers preventing organizations of all sizes from unleashing the true value of their data.
The company equips organizations with a single, integrated platform that offers the only data warehouse built for the cloud; instant, secure and governed access to their entire network of data; and a core architecture to enable many types of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications.
Major competitors include Azure, SQL and AWS, and Snowflake has managed to keep ahead of the competition, cementing itself as a global force. Across its 1300+ partners, the company's cloud manages over 250PB of data (with more than 515 million data workloads running every day). Its continued focus on product R&D and partnership expansion have Snowflake well-positioned to manage itself amidst the competition.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2020
$479m
LATE VC
Oct 2018
$450m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance plans
- Health savings accounts
- Robust retirement plans
- Life and disability insurance
- Weekly online lunch and learns
- Virtual workout classes
- Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
- On-demand mental health and wellness programs
- Fertility benefits and family planning resources
- Generous time-off and various leave plans
- Onsite and Remote Work
- Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
- New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Quarterly bonus or commission program
Company values
- Put Customers First - We only succeed when our customers succeed
- Integrity Always - Be open, honest and respectful
- Think Big - Be ambitious and have big goals
- Be Excellent - Quality and excellence count in everything we do
- Get It Done - Results matter. Work hard and smart
- Own It - Build our product and our company like it’s yours, because it is
- Make Each Other the Best - Treat people with kindness and respect
- Embrace Each Other's Differences - Accept and appreciate everyone from every walk of life
Company HQ
Bozeman, MT
Articles
Leadership
Benoit Dageville
(Co-Founder)Benoit, a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning databases, founded Snowflake after 10+ years at Oracle as a lead architect. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has 270+ patents.
Thierry Cruanes
(Co-Founder)Thierry is a leading expert in query optimization and parallel execution. He has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Database Systems and is a named inventor on 200+ patents.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Snowflake
- At Snowflake, embracing each others’ differences is a core value of our organization. We recognize and appreciate the importance of creating an environment in which all employees feel valued, included, and empowered to do their best work and bring great ideas to the table. Promoting the values of diversity and fostering an inclusive workplace culture takes each of us working together, caring deeply, and acting intentionally.
- Since Day 1, Snowflake and its culture belong to each of us, We “own it.” Owning it means we continually look for ways to improve and it’s in that spirit that our Diversity Council was formed. Our Council spans every functional area with an eye towards diverse representation across a range of demographics - 50% female, 50% persons of color, 21% LGBTQ, 7% persons with disabilities, and four generations. The Council narrowed in on three priority areas to focus our initiatives and impact positive change.
- 1. Enabling employee and community readiness by creating focus groups and using data to reveal deeper insights into our community and our specific needs and challenges to guide our future efforts and target initiatives.
- 2. Empowering employees’ voices by organizing outlets for conversation, spotlighting different employee stories, building mentorship programs, and supporting cultural inclusion.
- 3. Building external partnerships to broaden demographic representation in our candidate pipeline and educational partnerships to enable equitable opportunities for generations to come.
- As a company of action, we are committed to managing and measuring our forward progress around diversity and inclusion. And because we are a data company, the approach of gaining insights from the data, setting targets, measuring results, and iterating is in our DNA. We have put in place the foundational groundwork to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion for right now and for the future of Snowflake.
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