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title: 'Senior Technical Program Manager - Capacity Planning at Snowflake'
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# Senior Technical Program Manager - Capacity Planning at Snowflake

- **Company:** [Snowflake](https://feeny.ai/companies/snowflake)
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA
- **Compensation:** $166k–$238k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/dd0f5476-67c6-4a6a-9c8c-da00cf684973

## Job description

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 a Senior Technical Program Manager of Capacity Planning, you will:

- Own the capacity planning program end-to-end — from demand forecasting and resource modeling to procurement coordination and delivery tracking across Snowflake's multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Drive cross-functional alignment between Engineering, Infrastructure, Finance, and Cloud Provider teams to ensure capacity meets projected growth, seasonal demand spikes, and new product launches
- Build and improve forecasting models and frameworks that translate business growth signals, customer onboarding patterns, and workload trends into actionable infrastructure capacity plans
- Establish governance and review cadences — own weekly/monthly capacity reviews with engineering leadership, surface risks and tradeoffs, and drive decisions on resource allocation and prioritization
- Identify and mitigate capacity risks proactively — monitor utilization trends, flag bottlenecks, single points of failure, and lead constraint resolution before they become customer-impacting
- Partner closely with engineering teams to understand workload characteristics, architecture changes, and new feature launches that affect capacity requirements
- Drive efficiency and optimization programs — identify opportunities to reduce waste, improve utilization, and right-size infrastructure spend without compromising performance or availability
- Develop dashboards, metrics, and reporting that give leadership real-time visibility into capacity health, spend trajectory, and delivery timelines
- Influence infrastructure strategy by providing data-driven recommendations on cloud provider mix, reserved vs. on-demand strategy, and long-term capacity investments

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

Required:

- 7+ years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure planning, capacity management, or a related discipline at a cloud-scale technology company
- Demonstrated experience managing programs across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts: compute, storage, networking, containerization, and resource orchestration
- Experience with demand forecasting, resource modeling, and data-driven decision-making at scale
- Proven ability to drive cross-functional programs spanning engineering, finance, and operations with VP/Director-level stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills — ability to synthesize complex technical and financial data into clear executive-ready narratives
- Strong program management fundamentals: dependency tracking, risk management, milestone governance, and stakeholder alignment

Preferred:

- Experience with infrastructure capacity planning at hyperscale (10K+ node deployments or equivalent)
- Familiarity with cloud cost management and FinOps principles
- Experience with data platforms, data warehousing, or database infrastructure
- Working knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent)
- Background in building or improving automated capacity planning systems and tooling
- Experience operating in a fast-growth, high-ambiguity environment where priorities shift quickly

## SNOWFLAKE VALUES WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

- Get It Done — You thrive on turning ambiguity into executable plans and delivering outcomes, not just status updates
- Own It — You treat the capacity program as yours end-to-end, anticipating risks rather than reacting to them
- Integrity Always — You make data-driven recommendations even when they're uncomfortable, and communicate tradeoffs transparently
- Think Big — You don't just plan for today's scale — you build the frameworks that prepare Snowflake for 10x growth

## COMPENSATION

Snowflake is committed to pay equity and transparency. The base salary range and total on-target earnings for this role are listed below. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including relevant experience, skills, location, and internal equity. MarketBase Salary RangeTotal Target CompensationUS-Mrkt 1 (Bay Area, NYC, Seattle)$194,000 – $291,000$223,100 – $334,650US-Mrkt 2$165,000 – $248,000$189,750 – $285,200US-Mrkt 3$155,000 – $233,000$178,250 – $267,950 In addition to base salary and bonus, this role is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), ESPP, generous PTO, and more. WHY SNOWFLAKE?

- Join one of the fastest-growing enterprise technology companies in the world
- Work on infrastructure that powers AI and data workloads at global scale
- Collaborate with world-class engineering talent across Menlo Park, Bellevue, and beyond
- Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and benefits that support you and your family
- A culture that values ownership, speed, and delivering results

Snowflake is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. 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. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: [careers.snowflake.com](http://careers.snowflake.com)

## About Snowflake

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Snowflake provides an AI Data Cloud platform that enables enterprises to store, analyze, and securely share their data across multiple clouds and geographies.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: SNOW)
- **Headquarters**: Bozeman, Montana, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in the provided search results (widely known co-founders include Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski – not verified in these search results)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Enterprise software, cloud data platform
- **Target Customers**: B2B, including large enterprises (e.g., hundreds of the world’s largest companies), mid-market, and SMBs
- **Mission**: “To Mobilize the World’s Data” (Glassdoor) and “empower every enterprise to achieve its full potential through data and AI” (Snowflake Careers page)

## Products & Services
- **Snowflake AI Data Cloud**: A unified, multi-cloud platform that combines data warehousing, data lakes, data sharing, and AI/ML capabilities. Customers can discover, share, and analyze data while running analytic workloads across public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- **Snowflake Marketplace**: A marketplace for discovering and accessing third‑party data sets and applications.
- **Snowflake‑Powered Applications**: Platform for building and deploying data‑intensive applications.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not directly provided in search results (as a public company, market cap fluctuates and is available on financial websites).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – $1 to $5 billion (USD) per Glassdoor.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly mentioned in the search results (historically backed by Sequoia Capital, Dragoneer, etc. – not verified here).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named #1 on the 2023 Fortune Future 50 List ([Fortune.com](https://fortune.com))
  - Listed as a U.S. Best Large Place to Work by BuiltIn in 2024
  - Recognized as one of the “20 Coolest Cloud Software Companies” by CRN in 2022 and 2024
  - Headcount of 5,001–10,000 employees with 30 global locations; actively hiring
  - Revenue range $1B–$5B indicates strong scale

## Competitive Advantages
- **Multi‑Cloud Flexibility**: Operates across AWS, Azure, and GCP, avoiding vendor lock‑in.
- **Unified Data Experience**: One platform for data sharing, analytics, and AI, reducing silos.
- **Separation of Compute and Storage**: Allows independent scaling and cost efficiency (not detailed in provided sources, but a known differentiator).
- **Strong Ecosystem**: Data marketplace and extensive partner network.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Data Innovation**: The company’s current emphasis is on making “enterprise AI easy, efficient, and trusted” and integrating AI capabilities into the Data Cloud.
- **Global Expansion**: Active hiring across 30 locations indicates continued geographic growth.
- **Customer‑Centric Development**: Focus on empowering enterprises to achieve “full potential through data and AI.”

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “driven by innovation, low egos, high bars, and collaboration” (Snowflake Careers page). Glassdoor rating of 3.9/5 overall (78% approve CEO).
- **Work‑Life Balance**: Glassdoor rates Work/Life Balance at 3.7/5; many remote and hybrid roles available (see Indeed listings).
- **Benefits**: “Benefits & Beyond” program includes competitive compensation, equity, career advancement programs, and commitment to pay equality and veteran hiring.
- **Engineering Focus**: Hiring process includes 2–4 week timeline with technical interviews; the company values impactful, project‑based work for all roles, including interns.
- **Recognition**: Named a Best Large Place to Work (BuiltIn 2024) and future‑focused by Fortune, signaling strong employer brand.

## Sources
1. [Snowflake Careers Overview](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en)
2. [Life at Snowflake](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/snowflake-life)
3. [Snowflake on Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Snowflake-EI_IE928471.11,20.htm)
4. [Snowflake Hiring Process](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/gethired)
5. [Snowflake on Indeed](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Snowflake-7f4a7fba)
6. [Snowflake Careers Portal (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake) – provided by user

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