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Staff Technical Program Manager - AppEx
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. This is a hybrid role based in our Menlo Park or Bellevue office. You will split your time between working on-site with your engineering, product, and leadership partners and working remotely, giving you dedicated in-person time for planning, alignment, and the high-stakes conversations where being in the room matters. AS A STAFF TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Define and own the program strategy for AppEx's highest-impact initiatives, spanning application surfaces, developer tooling, AI-powered experiences, and the underlying platform, from initial framing through launch and adoption - Lead programs that cross AppEx sub-orgs (Applications, Notebooks, Native Apps, Drivers, AIML, Developer Platform) and extend into partner organizations across Snowflake, driving alignment where no single team owns the outcome - Partner with Directors, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Principal Engineers to shape multi-quarter roadmaps, make tradeoff decisions explicit, and build execution plans that hold up under real-world complexity - Drive cross-org decisions on shared APIs, integration points, and developer-facing launches that touch multiple Snowflake product surfaces - Diagnose systemic friction in how AppEx plans and delivers, and design the operating mechanisms, including AI-assisted workflows, that improve engineering velocity and predictability across the org - Represent AppEx programs to executive leadership with clear, data-backed narratives, recommendations, and escalations that drive decisions - Raise the bar for technical program management across AppEx by mentoring other TPMs and establishing practices the wider organization adopts OUR IDEAL STAFF TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER WILL HAVE: - 8+ years of technical program management experience, ideally at a cloud software company, with a track record of owning complex, multi-team programs end to end - Experience leading programs at organization-wide scope, where success depended on aligning several teams with competing priorities and no shared reporting line - Deep familiarity with developer-facing products or platform engineering, and an understanding of what it takes to build great developer experiences and ship them at scale - Strong technical depth: you work directly with engineers and architects, go deep on system design and dependencies when needed, and keep execution on track - A proven ability to influence without authority across Engineering, Product, Design, and Go-to-Market - Comfort operating in ambiguity, defining structure and direction where none exists and making progress before all the answers are clear - Excellent written and verbal communication, effective with engineers, executive stakeholders, and everyone in between - Experience with modern cloud-native software development, including CI/CD, release management, and API-first development - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING: - Experience delivering AI/ML