Senior Manager, Technical Recruiting

Snowflake

Senior Manager of Technical Recruiting driving executive hiring strategies at Snowflake. Leading a team to enhance technical leadership recruitment in a rapidly evolving environment.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeMenlo Park • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $201,000 - $263,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deliver hires that directly shape Snowflake's technical leadership bench and long-term technical strategy; includes Director+ leadership and world-class Principal & Distinguished Engineering talent
Be a player/coach while leading a small team of executive recruiters and researchers focused on Director+ technical leadership and Principal/Distinguished Engineers across Snowflake's engineering and product management organizations
Develop and execute proactive talent strategies that build long-term relationships with world-class technical leaders before roles are open
Transform reactive recruitment into a market intelligence function, coaching your team to become domain experts and trusted advisors to executive hiring managers
Partner directly with VPs and SVPs of Engineering & Product Management to define leadership talent needs, calibrate profiles and influence hiring decisions
Build and refine AI-augmented recruiting workflows, leveraging Snowflake's AI tools (Cortex AI, agentic automation) to accelerate sourcing, candidate intelligence, and pipeline management
Set quality and velocity standards for executive searches, using data to identify bottlenecks and continuously improve outcomes
Cultivate a culture of experimentation on your team, encouraging the adoption of new technologies and approaches to executive talent engagement
Represent Snowflake's employer brand at the executive level, creating compelling narratives that resonate with senior technical leaders considering their next move

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of recruiting experience, with significant depth in technical executive search (Director+, VP, Distinguished/Principal Engineering/Product hires)
3+ years leading or managing a recruiting team with a track record of developing high-performing recruiters and researchers
Deep fluency in the technical leadership talent market: who the key players are, what motivates them, and how competitive dynamics shift across AI/ML, infrastructure, data, and platform engineering
Demonstrated ability to build proactive sourcing strategies that generate pipeline independent of inbound applications
Strong executive presence and the ability to serve as a credible partner to VP/SVP hiring managers on talent strategy
Experience using AI tools and automation to improve recruiting outcomes, with genuine curiosity about what's next
A bias toward action, experimentation, and continuous improvement over process for its own sake
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

executive searchtechnical recruitingsourcing strategiespipeline managementdata analysisAI toolsautomationmarket intelligencetalent strategyleadership talent needs

Soft Skills

coachingteam leadershipexecutive presencerelationship buildingcommunicationcuriosityexperimentationcontinuous improvementinfluencecredibility

Certifications

Bachelor's degree