Senior Director of Engineering and Product Recruiting

Senior Director of Engineering and Product Recruiting Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. As the Senior Director of Engineering and Product Recruiting at Snowflake, you will be a key architect of our technical growth, reporting directly to the Chief People Officer. This role involves partnering with leadership to scale the technical organization, shape a team of talented recruiters and sourcers, and serve as a strategic thought partner to Engineering and Product leadership. This is a high-velocity growth story where we move fast and deliver talent even faster. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: - People Leadership: Inspire, mentor, develop, and build a team of senior skilled technical recruiters and sourcers. - C-Suite & Executive Partnership: Act as a primary advisor to the Product and Engineering Leadership teams , influencing and coaching senior leaders and maintaining rigor towards recruiting performance, hiring quality, and team scalability. - Full-Spectrum Remit: Lead the end-to-end talent strategy for the R&D organization, ranging from overseeing early career SWE recruitment,Product Manager searches, and the precision placement of senior technical leadership roles globally. - Performance Management: Focus on business impact and outcomes by designing a "go-forward" technical recruiting organization and innovating our recruiting model. - Operational Excellence: Ensure the rapid integration of an AI-native mindset, recruiting process excellence, candidate attraction methodologies, and technology utilization. This role requires the recruiting leader to ensure data accuracy, generate analytics and insights, and experiment with talent programs - Talent Evolution: Evolve hiring manager recruiting skills, focusing on elevating candidate quality by leveraging analytics, and sharpening new-hire selection criteria for technical and product roles. - Organizational Scaling: Continually evolve hiring practices, talent positioning, and recruiting org structures that will scale alongside our technical business. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: - Experience: 12+ years in Talent Acquisition, with 7+ years specifically managing scaling teams for Engineering and Product organizations. - Manager of Managers: Deep experience managing, inspiring, coaching, and scaling a team of senior technical recruiters and sourcers. - Technical & Product Fluency: Broad-based recruiting experience in enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale data platforms. - Data-Driven Influence: Advanced ability to leverage data for insights and to influence recruitment process, talent strategy, and critical hiring initiatives. - Relationship Building: Effective at building broad internal relationships across the organization and partnering closely with HRBPs, compensation, finance, and R&D operations. We are looking for a team player who also drives a high performance team.. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: - Hyper-growth Track Record: Proven experience scaling an engineering organization from mid-size to thousands of employees within a high-growth and highly technical engineering environment. - Senior Stakeholder Presence: Extensive experience influencing, aligning, and coaching C-suite and VP-level technical leaders. - R&D Strategic Vision: Experience partnering with Product and Engineering leadership to align hiring plans with complex product roadmaps and technical workload optimization. - Selection Innovation: Demonstrated success in implementing rigorous, performance-based selection methodologies to maintain high talent density. - Architectural Literacy: Ability to communicate effectively with engineering leaders about distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and AI/ML talent markets. - Global Complexity ... (truncated, view full listing at source)