At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
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.
Work Location: This position is based exclusively in Menlo Park, CA. Alternative locations are not available at this time.
PRIMARY 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.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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..
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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.
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Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
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