diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.md b/RELEASE-NOTES.md
index 89a6616b5e..9f6f5c0a24 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
   * `snow notebook create` proving an option to create a Snowflake Notebook from a file on stage.
 
 ## Fixes and improvements
+* Fixed ZIP packaging of Snowpark project dependencies containing implicit namespace packages like `snowflake`.
 
 
 # v2.4.0
diff --git a/src/snowflake/cli/plugins/snowpark/zipper.py b/src/snowflake/cli/plugins/snowpark/zipper.py
index 2e30cb9edc..8c8eb380f4 100644
--- a/src/snowflake/cli/plugins/snowpark/zipper.py
+++ b/src/snowflake/cli/plugins/snowpark/zipper.py
@@ -10,15 +10,21 @@
 
 IGNORED_FILES = [
     "**/.DS_Store",
+    "**/.git",
     "**/.git/*",
     "**/.gitignore",
+    "**/.env",
     "**/.env/*",
+    "**/.venv",
     "**/.venv/*",
     "**/__pycache__",
     "**/*.zip",
     "**/*.pyc",
+    "**/env",
     "**/env/*",
+    "**/ENV",
     "**/ENV/*",
+    "**/venv",
     "**/venv/*",
     "**/requirements.txt",
     "**/requirements.snowflake.txt",
@@ -52,9 +58,6 @@ def zip_dir(
 
 
 def _to_be_zipped(file: Path) -> bool:
-    if file.is_dir():
-        return False
-
     for pattern in IGNORED_FILES:
         # This has to be a string because of fnmatch
         file_as_str = str(file)
diff --git a/tests/test_zipper.py b/tests/test_zipper.py
index c43be82644..7b2a0ba1b3 100644
--- a/tests/test_zipper.py
+++ b/tests/test_zipper.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ def test_zip_current_dir(temp_dir):
     ]
     directories = [
         Path(".git"),
+        Path("snowcli/.git"),
         Path("bin"),
         Path("snowcli"),
         Path("snowcli/snowcli.dist-info"),
@@ -48,9 +49,13 @@ def test_zip_current_dir(temp_dir):
     assert set(zip_file.namelist()) == {
         "app.py",
         "additional_module.py",
+        "bin/",
         "bin/py.test",
+        "snowcli/",
         "snowcli/snowcli.py",
+        "snowcli/snowcli.dist-info/",
         "snowcli/snowcli.dist-info/METADATA.py",
+        "utils/",
         "utils/utils.py",
     }