Strategic Event Technology Manager

Strategic Event Technology Manager

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.

The Strategic Event Technology Manager is an integral part of the Strategic Events team who will partner across the organization with internal teams within Marketing, such as Product, Industry and Partner Marketing, Sales, Corporate Marketing, Field Marketing as well as agencies to deliver best in class event execution for our customers and partners. This role will utilize exceptional project management skills to manage all event operations from pre-event planning and production and post-event follow-up for Snowflake hosted events. This highly motivated and extremely organized candidate must have experience supporting a team that plans complex in-person events. This person will need to work effectively within a small team and operate strategically across the business.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Tool Ownership: Lead the scoping and implementation of event technology tools, including Registration, Call for Papers (CFP), Exhibitor/Content Resource Centers, Curated Agendas, Meeting Tools, Nominations, and Mobile Applications.
• Onsite Execution: Oversee onsite technology management, including check-in kiosks, meeting tracking, lead retrieval, and session scanning.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with internal stakeholders to define technology needs and communicate project plans, timelines, and deliverables.
• Quality Assurance: Develop robust QA protocols and contingency plans to ensure seamless execution.
• Vendor Management: Collaborate with and manage multiple technology vendors to ensure high performance and integration.
• Innovation: Proactively identify opportunities to improve event technology processes, tools, and the overall attendee experience.
• Project Leadership: Drive weekly event tech workstream meetings, maintaining detailed workback plans and budget tracking.
• Data Analytics: Take a data-driven approach to evaluating event effectiveness and ROI.
• Culture & Energy: Bring a creative, positive energy to the team, building relationships that help drive the business forward.
• Travel: Ability to travel nationally and internationally (including weekends and stays of up to one week) to support highly strategic events.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years experience delivering and executing on operations for 10,000+ person events
• 6+ years experience supporting teams delivering large scale first party events in B2B
• Day to day management of event technology budgets, agency management, and key internal stakeholder relationships
• Strong communication skills, including presentation, written, and verbal
• Customer service experience and demonstrating a solution-oriented approach
• Proven success in executing multiple events at a time and using both internal and external resources

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in-house at a large, highly visible technology company
• Experience in RainFocus, Bizzabo, ShowUp, Eventbase, and Braindate
• Motivated self-starter with a bias for action and who thrives on working in complex and challenging environments of a rapidly evolving business
• Excellent project management skills, analytical ability, both creative and strategic thinking
• Excels at cross-group collaboration, communication and problem solving
• Effective written and verbal communication

This role is hybrid requiring 3 days a week in a Snowflake office.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

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

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $112,000 - $147,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.