Senior Litigation Counsel

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 role will report to Snowflake’s Senior Director, Associate General Counsel - Employment & Litigation. This is an in-person role based in Atlanta, GA, McLean, VA, or Menlo Park, CA.

Responsibilities

• Working collaboratively with our Legal team, outside counsel, and other stakeholders, manage commercial-, IP-, trademark-, bankruptcy-, and employment-related disputes and litigation matters.
• Manage responses to subpoenas, garnishment orders, domestic relations orders, statutory requests for information, and requests from government and law enforcement agencies.
• Lead and manage internal investigations on matters involving legal risks to Snowflake.
• Assist and lead efforts in creating, improving, and developing scalable processes and procedures related to the handling of litigation matters for a growing company.
• Advise business stakeholders on litigation risks and issues involved in business disputes.
• Pragmatically weigh legal risks and benefits of complex situations and propose practical solutions with tact and maturity.
• Review and advise on litigation-related contractual provisions in commercial agreements, including providing advice on dispute resolution, governing law, venue, arbitration, limitation of liability, and indemnification clauses.

Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school, membership in at least one state bar, and ability to practice in the jurisdiction in which this position is located.
• Minimum of 4 years of legal experience, with substantive litigation experience.
• Experience managing complex litigation and/or class action claims.
• Experience conducting internal investigations.
• Law firm experience and in-house experience preferred.
• Ability to explain complicated concepts in simple terms.
• Strong organizational skills, flexibility, and comfortable working in an extremely fast-paced environment.
• Attitude that no project is too big or too small.
• Sense of humor and passion for the job.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this role is $202,000 - $265,600. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan. The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible spending & health savings account.
• At least 12 paid holidays.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.
• Employee assistance program.
• Other company benefits.