Snowflake

Principal Program Manager - Federal

US-IL-Chicago-MSO, Remote. Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will deliver large projects or programs and drive new service opportunities for US Federal Government and SLED customers. You will act as a trusted advisor to C-Suite and Executive Sponsors to develop strategy, build roadmaps, and execute program plans.

What you will do

  • Deliver Fixed Fee and highly scoped projects on time
  • Own project governance for budget and revenue reconciliation
  • Lead large data migrations and code conversion efforts
  • Drive scope clarity with project teams and customer stakeholders
  • Execute project execution, use case identification, roadmapping, and risk analysis
  • Drive planning and execution of the program plan with all stakeholders
  • Maintain full ownership of the project life cycle
  • Proactively identify and mitigate program or project risks
  • Collaborate and communicate with various workstream owners
  • Collaborate with customer C-Suite to drive alignment on vision and strategy

Required qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in a Program Manager role or similar capacity dealing with complex, technical implementation and/or migration projects
  • 5+ years of experience in Program Management interfacing with executives across US Public Sector and US Federal government market
  • Recent experience successfully delivering multi-million dollar complex data-related and/or cloud-based large Programs for a Fortune 500 customer
  • Must have played the role of trusted advisor to C-Suite or Executive Sponsor of the Program at Fortune 500 customer
  • Extremely adept in executive communication and relationship management across multitude of stakeholders
  • Proven ability to communicate and translate effectively across multiple groups from design and engineering to marketing, advertising, and business development
  • Strong presentation skills and an ability to articulate to a business and technical audience
  • Familiar with Agentic AI and modern AI technology implementation

Nice to have

  • Direct experience, ideally within US Federal Government, in a AI, Cloud, Data or Business Intelligence field
  • Experience in a customer support and advisory technical role (Solution architect, system administrator, technical account manager or equivalent)
  • Active TS or Secret Clearance with DoD experience

Benefits

  • Unique opportunity to work on a truly disruptive software product
  • Unique, hands-on experience with bleeding edge data warehouse technology
  • Develop, lead and execute an industry-changing initiative
  • Learn from a dedicated, experienced team of professionals

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.