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Senior Technical Program Manager - Capacity Planning
Snowflake INC · 🇺🇸 US-CA-Menlo Park; US-WA-Bellevue
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 428 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 110 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Snowflake INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Staff Technical Program Manager” (Information Technology Project Managers) in WA: $139k–$167k, median $153k. Most were filed at wage level III (50%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 428 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 110 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. 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