Strategic Event Technology Manager

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.Strategic Event Technology ManagerThere is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.At Snowflake, 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 ResponsibilitiesTool 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 Qualifications8+ years experience delivering and executing on operations for 10,000+ person events8+ years experience supporting teams delivering large scale first party events in B2BDay to day management of event technology budgets, agency management, and key internal stakeholder relationshipsStrong communication skills, including presentation, written, and verbalCustomer service experience and demonstrating a solution-oriented approachProven success in executing multiple events at a time and using both internal and external resourcesPreferred QualificationsExperience in-house at a large, highly visible technology companyExperience 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 businessExcellent project management skills, analytical ability, both creative and strategic thinkingExcels at cross-group collaboration, communication and problem so ... (truncated, view full listing at source)