# Senior Manager, Technical Recruiting

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA, Dublin, CA
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $201k – $264k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Technical Recruiting, Executive Search, Talent Strategy, AI, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Pipeline Management, Employer Branding, Sourcing, Recruiting Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-05-27

> As a Senior Manager, Technical Recruiting, you will lead a team focused on identifying and closing senior technical leadership talent. You will develop proactive talent strategies, partner with VPs and SVPs of Engineering & Product Management, and leverage AI tools to improve recruiting outcomes.

## Job Description

## RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Deliver hires that directly shape Snowflake's technical leadership bench and long-term technical strategy; includes Director+ leadership and world-class Principal & Distinguished Engineering talent
* Be a player/coach while leading a small team of executive recruiters and researchers focused on Director+ technical leadership and Principal/Distinguished Engineers across Snowflake's engineering and product management organizations
* Develop and execute proactive talent strategies that build long-term relationships with world-class technical leaders before roles are open
* Transform reactive recruitment into a market intelligence function, coaching your team to become domain experts and trusted advisors to executive hiring managers
* Partner directly with VPs and SVPs of Engineering & Product Management to define leadership talent needs, calibrate profiles and influence hiring decisions
* Build and refine AI-augmented recruiting workflows, leveraging Snowflake's AI tools (Cortex AI, agentic automation) to accelerate sourcing, candidate intelligence, and pipeline management
* Set quality and velocity standards for executive searches, using data to identify bottlenecks and continuously improve outcomes
* Cultivate a culture of experimentation on your team, encouraging the adoption of new technologies and approaches to executive talent engagement
* Represent Snowflake's employer brand at the executive level, creating compelling narratives that resonate with senior technical leaders considering their next move

## QUALIFICATIONS:

* 10+ years of recruiting experience, with significant depth in technical executive search (Director+, VP, Distinguished/Principal Engineering/Product hires)
* 3+ years leading or managing a recruiting team with a track record of developing high-performing recruiters and researchers
* 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
* Demonstrated ability to build proactive sourcing strategies that generate pipeline independent of inbound applications
* Strong executive presence and the ability to serve as a credible partner to VP/SVP hiring managers on talent strategy
* Experience using AI tools and automation to improve recruiting outcomes, with genuine curiosity about what's next
* A bias toward action, experimentation, and continuous improvement over process for its own sake
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

## PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Prior experience in executive search at a top-tier technology company or retained executive search firm
* Familiarity with Snowflake's product landscape, competitive positioning, or the data/AI infrastructure talent market
* Experience building executive recruiting functions from the ground up or through significant transformation
* Hands-on use of AI/GenAI tools in recruiting workflows (candidate research, outreach personalization, market mapping)
* Existing relationships with senior technical leaders in the data, AI, or cloud infrastructure space

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