Technical Delivery Director

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · CA-Menlo Park, United States · Professional Services

Snowflake is seeking a Technical Delivery Director to lead teams of Technical Consulting Managers and Solutions Architects to accelerate customer adoption and drive business objectives using Snowflake's services and leading practices. The role involves building and executing strategic business plans, managing financial forecasts, leading complex engagements, standardizing delivery processes, and collaborating with sales, partners, and GTM teams to ensure customer success and drive new service offerings. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing large technical teams, large-scale database technologies, and executive stakeholder engagement.

What you'd actually do

  1. Hire, coach, and lead the Technical Delivery Team to meet customer goals while creating a culture of high performance, growth, and ownership
  2. Build and execute a strategic and actionable business plan that meets the Services Delivery regional objectives, including revenue and consumption targets
  3. Lead the Technical Delivery Team through large complex engagements, engaging at executive and sponsor levels both on the customer and partner sides, and acting as the escalation point of contact to facilitate collaboration, decision making, internal alignment, and customer buy-in on proposed solutions
  4. Standardize delivery across team members and broader Services Delivery by reviewing proposals/estimates, conducting project reviews, and developing tools based on field input to maintain the highest levels of efficiency, quality, and process improvement
  5. Collaborate with Sales Account Teams, Services Delivery Sales Teams, Services Delivery Leadership, Resource Management Teams, and SI/ Partners to understand the customer and engagement needs, including business & technical challenges, key stakeholders, and delivering on the value of Snowflake

Skills

Required

  • BA/BS in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields
  • Strong management consulting experience and skills
  • 15+ years of SD delivery experience, including expertise building and leading large teams (25+)
  • managing, leading, and/or delivering SD with accountability for financial targets (revenue, headcount, utilization, etc.)
  • Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technologies (e.g. Snowflake, Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum, etc.)
  • Proven track record of building and leading highly technical teams
  • Ability to identity process improvement areas and prioritize areas of improvement and optimization
  • Experience identifying potential risks that could impact project timelines or deliverables
  • Executive stakeholder presence; internal and external
  • Experience managing cross-functional SD teams (e.g. consulting, implementation, trainers, project managers), and working with delivery partners on initiatives to improve quality, reliability, and repeatability of service
  • Ability to forecast and achieve or exceed delivery metrics (i.e., customer satisfaction, on-time delivery, utilization)

Nice to have

  • Ability to travel as needed

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native thinkers
  • treating AI as a high-trust collaborator