Senior Manager of Technical Executive Recruiting

Join Snowflake's People team as a Senior Manager of Technical Executive Recruiting. In this role, you will lead a small team of executive recruiters and researchers, develop proactive talent strategies, and partner directly with VPs and SVPs of Engineering & Product Management. You will also build and refine AI-augmented recruiting workflows, set quality and velocity standards for executive searches, and represent Snowflake's employer brand at the executive level.

• Transforming the approach to executive-level technical hiring by building proactive, market-informed strategies.
• Leading a small team of executive recruiters and researchers focused on Director+ technical leadership and Principal/Distinguished Engineers.
• Partnering directly with VPs and SVPs of Engineering & Product Management to define leadership talent needs and influence hiring decisions.
• A bias toward action, experimentation, and continuous improvement over process for its own sake
• Strong executive presence and the ability to serve as a credible partner to VP/SVP hiring managers on talent strategy
• 10+ years of recruiting experience, with significant depth in technical executive search (Director+, VP, Distinguished/Principal Engineering/Product hires)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years leading or managing a recruiting team with a track record of developing high-performing recruiters and researchers
• Experience using AI tools and automation to improve recruiting outcomes, with genuine curiosity about what's next
• Demonstrated ability to build proactive sourcing strategies that generate pipeline independent of inbound applications
• 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
• Familiarity with Snowflake's product landscape, competitive positioning, or the data/AI infrastructure talent market
• Prior experience in executive search at a top-tier technology company or retained executive search firm
• Hands-on use of AI/GenAI tools in recruiting workflows (candidate research, outreach personalization, market mapping)
• Experience building executive recruiting functions from the ground up or through significant transformation
• Existing relationships with senior technical leaders in the data, AI, or cloud infrastructure space