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Principal Program Manager

157k – 206kChicago, ILTechnical Program ManagementHybrid10+ YOE
Summary

Lead large-scale Snowflake implementation programs for Fortune 500 customers as a trusted C-Suite advisor. Drive strategy, roadmap, execution, risk mitigation, and customer value delivery for complex data and cloud projects.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Deliver large projects or programs and drive new service opportunities, working with customers and internal stakeholders
  • Serve as overall Program Lead for a large customer, acting as a trusted advisor to C-Suite and/or Executive Sponsor
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to craft vision, develop strategy, build roadmap of use cases, and build program/project plan
  • Proactively mitigate risks and execute on delivering customer value
  • Be a program management expert on all aspects of Snowflake implementation and variety of project and services types
  • 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 to scope clarity with project teams and customer stakeholders
  • Drive planning and all aspects of execution of the program plan, working collaboratively with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders
  • Take full ownership of the project life cycle, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and predictable delivery
  • Proactively identify and mitigate program or project risks
  • Collaborate and communicate effectively with various workstream owners
  • Collaborate with customer C-Suite and/or Executive Sponsor stakeholders to drive alignment on vision and strategy
  • Leverage and improve program management methodology, processes, tools, templates, and checklists
  • Champion customer outcomes and articulate program value in quantifiable metrics
  • Drive customer satisfaction through surveys, renewals, and additional opportunities
  • Work with Professional Services Practice Teams and Sales Account Teams to facilitate practice area enablement and support sales pursuits
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing
  • Determine areas for process improvements within both the customer and Snowflake

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in a Program Manager role (or similar capacity) dealing with complex, technical implementation and/or migration projects
  • Recent experience successfully delivering multi-million dollar complex data-related and/or cloud-based large Programs for a Fortune 500 customer
  • 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
  • Direct experience in the Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and/or Cloud field
  • Proven ability to communicate and translate effectively across multiple groups from design and engineering to marketing, advertising, and business development
  • Strong presentation skills and ability to articulate to a business and technical audience (including senior level executives at large enterprises)

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience in a customer support and advisory technical role (Solution architect, system administrator, technical account manager or equivalent)
  • Familiar with Agentic AI and modern AI technology implementation
Skills
Program ManagementData WarehousingBusiness IntelligenceCloud ImplementationData MigrationExecutive CommunicationStakeholder ManagementProject GovernanceRisk ManagementRoadmapping
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