Senior Corporate Counsel - Public Sector

Role Summary

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.

Snowflake is seeking a seasoned U.S. Public Sector attorney to support Snowflake’s U.S. State, Local and Higher Education business (“SLED”). This role will serve as a key legal partner to our rapidly growing SLED organization negotiating complex transactional arrangements and advising on regulatory and compliance matters.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility position on a world-class legal team, reporting to the Senior Director, Associate General Counsel. The ideal candidate brings sold expertise in SLED contracting and compliance, have a background negotiating SaaS transactions and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, scaling environment.

This is a hybrid role based in McLean, VA or Atlanta, GA.

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiation, drafting, and management of U.S. State, Local and High Education (“SLED”) agreements, including listing and management of State framework agreements, SaaS agreements, professional services agreements (PSAs), statements of work (SOWs) and partner agreements,
• Advise on U.S. State and Local government procurement laws and regulations,
• Support the full government sales lifecycle, including reviewing RFPs/RFIs, identifying risk, and ensuring compliant proposal submissions
• Partner cross-functionally with sales, product, engineering, finance, and compliance teams to structure and close deals aligned with business objectives
• Advise on adjacent legal areas including data rights, intellectual property, privacy, cybersecurity, export controls, ethics, and conflicts of interest
• Monitor and interpret changes in laws, regulations, and industry practices, and proactively advise the business
• Drive process improvements and leverage technology to enhance legal support for a high-growth sales organization
• How do you want to make your impact?
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Requirements

• +7 years of experience, ideally combining commercial and SLED transactional experience at a high-growth SaaS or technology company
• Expertise in government procurement frameworks and contracting vehicles
• Demonstrated excellence in contract negotiation, drafting, and risk assessment
• Familiarity with export controls, cybersecurity requirements, and regulatory compliance in government contracting
• Exceptional organizational, project management, and prioritization skills
• Ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a fast-moving environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
• Collaborative, service-oriented mindset with strong professional integrity

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.

About the Company

ABOUT THE AI PRODUCTS TEAM

The AI Products team is part of the broader Marketplace & Collaboration organization and is focused on bringing AI products on top of Snowflake’s data and application platform to help customers discover, share, monetize, and act on data assets & applications more easily.

This team is building the connective tissue of the agentic enterprise: the infrastructure and product surfaces that allow Snowflake customers to seamlessly share datasets, semantic views, and applications, and make them discoverable and executable through Cortex Code, CoWork, and other agentic harnesses.

Our strategy is centered on evolving Snowflake Marketplace for the AI era, including packaging data and intelligence into ready-to-use agentic experiences, and enabling governed access patterns that let AI systems safely operate on enterprise data and applications.

AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER ON AI PRODUCTS, YOU WILL

WHY JOIN THIS TEAM

This is a chance to shape how Snowflake customers expose data and applications to AI systems in a secure, governed, and highly usable way. The work sits at the intersection of platform engineering, product innovation, and AI transformation, and it directly influences how the Data Cloud evolves for the next generation of customers and builders.