Technical Academic Advocacy and Curriculum

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.

The Snowflake Education Services team plays a crucial role in the mission of providing top-notch educational resources and training. The team ensures that learners, both within and outside of our direct customer base, have access to the best materials and training, propelling them towards success in the evolving data-driven landscape. As part of Snowflake’s commitment to empower the next generation of data professionals, we envision democratizing our education program for university students and professors by providing a wide range of training and support resources.

This is a remote role with preference to candidates currently located in East Coast.

About The Role:

This is a pivotal, high-impact role at the intersection of technology, education, and academic community growth.

We are seeking a talented data professional to be the leading Technical Evangelist that will educate the academic community and the Technical Owner of our creative and compelling content, designed to inspire and serve students and educators.

You will introduce Snowflake, with a strong focus on AI, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and Data Engineering, to academic leaders, educators, and students.

Success will be measured by your ability to:

• Drive the integration of Snowflake technology into academic curricula worldwide and teach and mentor students and educators in core Snowflake data and AI skills.

• Create, execute, and support compelling, hands-on learning experiences through industry talks, projects, datathons, and hackathons.

• Enable students to prepare for industry certification, such as the SnowPro certification, through relevant educational content.

Key Responsibilities (The Tri-Focus)

1. Technical Advocacy and Enablement

• Evangelize Snowflake: Act as a technical advocate by leading and engaging with academia through course delivery, presentations, AI seminars/talks, workshops, hackathons, and other interactive technical events.

• Drive Educator Enablement: Provide technical resources and training to educators to enhance their ability to teach the Snowflake, cloud computing, and AI technology stack.

• Student Mentorship & Support: Actively mentor and provide technical support for student enablement activities, including capstone projects, datathons, hackathons, and competition or challenge events.

2. Technical Content Ownership & Experiential Learning

• Design and Build Starter Kits: Serve as the technical owner for experiential learning content by creating high-quality starter kits and sample solutions for capstone projects, student projects, hackathons, and datathons.

• Showcase Cutting-Edge Features: Develop compelling content that specifically highlights Snowflake's AI capabilities and other key features.

• Source and Integrate Data: Source appropriate open datasets to facilitate compelling and realistic learning experiences for students and educators.

• Generate Creative Outreach Content: Create high-quality, engaging technical content to support the Academia program’s evangelism and curriculum integration efforts (e.g., technical marketing assets, presentation components).

• Content Refinement: Evaluate and adapt technical content created by Snowflake Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) into high-quality, engaging academic learning materials, focusing on clarity, flow, code quality, and visual appeal.

3. Academic Partnership & Curriculum Integration

• Curriculum Leadership: Collaborate with educators and academic leaders to establish robust connections that drive the integration of Snowflake into academic coursework, with a strong focus on AI, analytics, and data engineering areas.

• Cultivate Strategic Growth: Build and grow strategic partnerships with higher education institutions and educators to significantly expand the reach of Snowflake technology within the academic community.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work independently in a remote position, collaboratively with academics, and demonstrate initiative.

• 5+ years of experience in programming languages Python and SQL, and in databases such as SQL and analytic databases.

• 3+ years of experience teaching in the fields of AI, data analytics, data science, and data engineering.

• Proficient in Snowflake or similar native cloud data services and data platforms.

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly to keep abreast of Snowflake and the AI ecosystem’s rapidly evolving technology stacks. Ability to incorporate new features and capabilities into educational content.

• Experience with source control tools Git and GitHub and coding project management tools like Jira.

• Experience with AI assistant tools, such as coding tools like Co-pilot/Cursor and AI-assisted presentation/content creation tools.

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.

How do you want to make your impact?

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