Senior Manager, Developer Relations

Snowflake
Menlo Park, Bellevue, Toronto
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 206,000 - 296,700 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Storytelling","Cross-functional leadership","Leadership","Mentoring"]

Own the developer strategy for Snowflake’s AI and developer tools, shaping the developer point of view and driving measurable developer adoption. Set the technical and quality bar by producing and reviewing high-impact adoption assets like quickstarts, demos, and deep-dive guides. Lead multi-team launch adoption motions, build reusable adoption infrastructure, and close the loop between developers and product. Recruit, lead, and grow a team of Developer Advocates.

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Snowflake
Snowflake
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Senior Manager, Developer Relations

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Job Summary

Own the developer strategy for Snowflake’s AI and developer tools, shaping the developer point of view and driving measurable developer adoption. Set the technical and quality bar by producing and reviewing high-impact adoption assets like quickstarts, demos, and deep-dive guides. Lead multi-team launch adoption motions, build reusable adoption infrastructure, and close the loop between developers and product. Recruit, lead, and grow a team of Developer Advocates.
Location: Menlo Park, Bellevue, Toronto
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the developer strategy for AI and developer tools, shaping the developer point of view and aligning to an adoption path.
  • •Produce and review production-quality adoption assets (reference apps, quickstarts, demos, deep-dive guides, talks) and establish reusable quality patterns.
  • •Lead multi-team launch adoption motions, defining day-0 readiness, success metrics, dependencies, and follow-on adoption work.
  • •Build durable adoption infrastructure (repos, quickstarts, demos, workshops, field kits, docs patterns, playbooks, discoverability across channels, docs, search, AI assistants, community, partners).
  • •Manage, coach, and develop a team of Developer Advocates, owning hiring, performance, growth, and career development.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 206,000 - 296,700 annually

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of experience in Developer Relations/Advocacy/Experience or a closely related technical field, driving measurable developer adoption.
  • •5+ years of leadership experience managing or formally leading technical/DevRel teams, with judgment to hire and grow advocates.
  • •Strong hands-on technical foundation to build and debug demos and explain architecture tradeoffs to builders and partners.
  • •Working fluency with modern AI development, including how LLMs work, patterns like RAG, and building with LLM APIs or agent frameworks (e.g., Snowflake Cortex, OpenAI, Anthropic, OSS models).
  • •Solid grounding in data and analytics workflows such as SQL, ELT/ETL, dbt, and orchestration, with empathy for data and engineering teams.
Experience:10+ yearsDeveloper relationsAI developmentDeveloper advocacyData and analyticsOpen source
Skills:CommunicationStorytellingCross-functional leadershipLeadershipMentoring
Tech Stack:LLMsPromptingGroundingEvaluationRAGTools/agentsFunction callingLLM APIsAgent frameworksSnowflake CortexOpenAIAnthropicOSS modelsSQLELT/ETLDbtOrchestrationNotebooksStreamlitApp Runtime

Company Brief

Snowflake
Provides a cloud-native data platform for data warehousing, data engineering, data science, and analytics, enabling organizations to store, process, and share large-scale data across multiple cloud providers with elastic scalability and performance.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Bozeman, United States
Founded: 2012
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