Principal Program Manager - Migrations
Senior Professional Services role at Snowflake: lead enterprise customer migrations onto the Snowflake cloud data platform — scoping and planning migration projects, overseeing delivery quality, managing client relationships and migration metrics, and improving migration tools and best practices. Core focus is program/project management around data warehouse, database, and cloud migrations.
- Compensation
- $184K–$241.5K / yr
- Location
- US-CA-Menlo Park
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years of experience in a Services Delivery role (or similar) with complex technical implementation projects, focused on data warehouse, database, or application migrations
- Track record of delivering on PS revenue targets for a set of accounts; able to prioritize multiple complex migration projects and deliverables simultaneously
- Direct experience in Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and/or Cloud field, with specific experience related to migrations
- Proven ability to communicate and translate across multiple groups (design, engineering, marketing, business development) with focus on migration terminology and concepts
- Strong presentation skills; able to articulate migration strategies and benefits to business and technical audiences including senior enterprise executives
Nice to have
- Experience in a client support and advisory technical role (solution architect, system administrator, technical account manager, or equivalent) with migration expertise
- Deep understanding of various database technologies, ETL processes, and data modeling
- Experience with migration assessment tools and methodologies
Full 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 Principal Program Manager focused on Migrations, you will be driving new service opportunities related to migrating customer workloads to Snowflake, working with both customers and internal stakeholders. You will interact hand-in-hand with senior stakeholders on opportunities to improve our migration service and delivery. You will work across customer organizations and multiple Snowflake teams to ensure customers’ applications are successfully migrated, optimized for Snowflake, and scale to the needs of their business. Success is defined by the SDM's ability to develop a quality migration service strategy per customer, capture and report on key migration metrics, identify upsell opportunities related to migrations and Snowflake adoption, and quickly become the client’s trusted advisor on all things migration to Snowflake.
AS A PROJECT MANAGER, YOU WILL:
- Be a project management expert on all aspects of migrations to Snowflake, including assessment, planning, execution, and optimization, across a variety of project and service types.
- Provide delivery quality oversight and guidance for migration engagements by assisting in the creation and execution of the overall vision for service delivery and client satisfaction, ensuring adherence to migration best practices.
- Own, manage, and communicate the operational relationship with assigned clients undergoing migrations, including the creation, implementation, and tracking of relationship roadmaps focused on successful migration and ongoing Snowflake utilization.
- Manage key migration projects by communicating effectively with project team members, management, and project stakeholders on status, issues, risks, and project goals and objectives through clear project documentation, meetings, and any required follow-ups.
- Proactively provide input into the development of migration best practices, methodologies, and training materials for the Professional Services team.
- Integrate migration-specific knowledge into practical configuration tactics, techniques, and procedures to ensure teams deliver well-rounded and well-developed migration solutions.