Principal Program Manager
US-IL-Chicago-MSO · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- US-IL-Chicago-MSO
About the role
- The Principal Program Manager will lead large-scale projects and programs, acting as a trusted advisor to C-Suite and executive stakeholders.
- This role involves driving new service opportunities, managing complex data migrations, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to deliver customer value.
- The position requires an AI-native mindset to help redefine how work is done while managing project lifecycles from vision to execution.
Responsibilities
- Deliver large projects and programs, including Fixed Fee and highly scoped initiatives, on time and on budget.
- Own project governance for budget and revenue reconciliation.
- Lead large data migrations and code conversion efforts.
- Drive scope clarity with project teams and customer stakeholders.
- Identify use cases, develop roadmaps, and perform risk analysis for customers.
- Collaborate with customer C-Suite and Executive Sponsors to drive alignment on vision and strategy.
- Leverage and improve program management methodologies, processes, tools, and templates.
- Facilitate practice area enablement and support sales pursuits by scoping projects and creating delivery proposals.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to improve products and marketing.
- Identify and implement process improvements within both the customer organization and Snowflake.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in a Program Manager role or similar capacity dealing with complex, technical implementation and/or migration projects.
- Recent experience successfully delivering multi-million dollar complex data-related and/or cloud-based large programs for a Fortune 500 customer.
- Experience acting as a trusted advisor to C-Suite or Executive Sponsors at a Fortune 500 customer.
- Adept in executive communication and relationship management across internal and external stakeholders.
- Direct experience in the Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and/or Cloud field.
- Proven ability to communicate and translate effectively across design, engineering, marketing, and business development groups.
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to articulate concepts to both business and technical audiences.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in a customer support and advisory technical role such as Solution Architect, System Administrator, or Technical Account Manager.
Workplace
- Role is based in Chicago, IL.
Skills
- Program Management
- Data Warehousing
- Business Intelligence
- Code Conversion
- Agentic AI
- Project Governance
- Risk Analysis
