# Senior Technical Program Manager - Capacity Planning **Company**: Snowflake **Location**: Menlo Park, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $166K – $238K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/dd0f5476-67c6-4a6a-9c8c-da00cf684973?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c56926ce-6fe ## 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. As a Senior Technical Program Manager of Capacity Planning, you will: - Own the capacity planning program end-to-end , from demand forecasting and resource modeling to procurement coordination and delivery tracking across Snowflake's multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) - Drive cross-functional alignment between Engineering, Infrastructure, Finance, and Cloud Provider teams to ensure capacity meets projected growth, seasonal demand spikes, and new product launches - Build and improve forecasting models and frameworks that translate business growth signals, customer onboarding patterns, and workload trends into actionable infrastructure capacity plans - Establish governance and review cadences , own weekly/monthly capacity reviews with engineering leadership, surface risks and tradeoffs, and drive decisions on resource allocation and prioritization - Identify and mitigate capacity risks proactively , monitor utilization trends, flag bottlenecks, single points of failure, and lead constraint resolution before they become customer-impacting - Partner closely with engineering teams to understand workload characteristics, architecture changes, and new feature launches that affect capacity requirements - Drive efficiency and optimization programs , identify opportunities to reduce waste, improve utilization, and right-size infrastructure spend without compromising performance or availability - Develop dashboards, metrics, and reporting that give leadership real-time visibility into capacity health, spend trajectory, and delivery timelines - Influence infrastructure strategy by providing data-driven recommendations on cloud provider mix, reserved vs. on-demand strategy, and long-term capacity investments **WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:** **Required:** - 7+ years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure planning, capacity management, or a related discipline at a cloud-scale technology company - Demonstrated experience managing programs across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) - Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts: compute, storage, networking, containerization, and resource orchestration - Experience with demand forecasting, resource modeling, and data-driven decision-making at scale - Proven ability to drive cross-functional programs spanning engineering, finance, and operations with VP/Director-level stakeholders - Excellent communication skills , ability to synthesize complex technical and financial data into clear executive-ready narratives - Strong program management fundamentals: dependency tracking, risk management, milestone governance, and stakeholder alignment **Preferred:** - Experience with infrastructure capacity planning at hyperscale (10K+ node deployments or equivalent) - Familiarity with cloud cost management and FinOps principles - Experience with data platforms, data warehousing, or database infrastructure - Working knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent) - Background in building or improving automated capacity planning systems and tooling - Experience operating in a fast-growth, high-ambiguity environment where priorities shift quickly ## **SNOWFLAKE VALUES WE'RE LOOKING FOR:** - **Get It Done** , You thrive on turning ambiguity into executable plans and delivering outcomes, not just status updates - **Own It** , You treat the capacity program as yours end-to-end, anticipating risks rather than reacting to them - **Integrity Always** , You make data-driven recommendations even when they're uncomfortable, and communicate tradeoffs transparently - **Think Big** , You don't just plan for today's scale , you build the frameworks that prepare Snowflake for 10x growth ## **COMPENSATION** The base salary range and total on-target earnings for this role are listed below. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including relevant experience, skills, location, and internal equity. MarketBase Salary RangeTotal Target CompensationUS-Mrkt 1 (Bay Area, NYC, Seattle)$194,000 – $291,000$223,100 – $334,650US-Mrkt 2$165,000 – $248,000$189,750 – $285,200US-Mrkt 3$155,000 – $233,000$178,250 – $267,950 In addition to base salary and bonus, this role is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), ESPP, generous PTO, and more. ## Skills ### Required - technical program management - infrastructure planning - capacity management - cloud infrastructure - demand forecasting - resource modeling - data-driven decision-making ### Nice to have - infrastructure capacity planning - cloud cost management - FinOps - data platforms - data warehousing - database infrastructure - monitoring and observability tools --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/dd0f5476-67c6-4a6a-9c8c-da00cf684973?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)