Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Strategic Event Technology Manager role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the intersection of go to market execution and systems ownership. In a cloud platform business like Snowflake, large first party events function as product education, partner enablement, and pipeline influence at scale, and the technology layer determines how measurable and repeatable that motion becomes across regions and audiences.
Career wise, the position builds durable SaaS operating skills: selecting and implementing specialized tools, designing QA and contingency processes, and translating stakeholder needs into reliable workflows. Ownership of registration, agenda, meeting, and lead capture systems also creates a practical foundation in data governance and attribution, which are central to modern SaaS marketing operations. Managing multiple vendors and integrations further strengthens the ability to run complex programs with clear inputs, outputs, and performance signals.
This role is best suited to an operator who prefers structured planning, tight coordination, and precision under real world constraints like onsite execution and travel. It fits someone who enjoys being the connective layer between marketing, sales, and external partners, and who is motivated by making event programs more scalable through process, tooling, and analytics rather than creative direction alone.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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 Manager
There 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 Responsibilities
Tool 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 Qualifications
8+ years experience delivering and executing on operations for 10,000+ person events
8+ years experience supporting teams delivering large scale first party events in B2B
Day to day management of event technology budgets, agency management, and key internal stakeholder relationships
Strong communication skills, including presentation, written, and verbal
Customer service experience and demonstrating a solution-oriented approach
Proven success in executing multiple events at a time and using both internal and external resources
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in-house at a large, highly visible technology company
Experience 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 business
Excellent project management skills, analytical ability, both creative and strategic thinking
Excels at cross-group collaboration, communication and problem solving
Effective written and verbal communication
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
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For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
