Senior Product Design Manager

Snowflake • Menlo Park, CA

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake Design team. Snowflake Design is a world-class AI Design & Research team of curious, adaptive problem solvers on a mission to evolve how the world works with data and AI. Great user experience is a strategic differentiator for Snowflake — but that differentiation doesn’t come automatically. We’re seeking a Senior Product Design Manager who thrives in high-velocity, experimental environments, thinks in AI-systems and code, and leads teams confidently through ambiguity. You will oversee design for Collaboration, Horizon Catalog, Marketplace, and Postgres, driving new AI-native workflows where intent, behavior, and data models matter as much as pixels. A key focus will be defining the design strategy for the Horizon Catalog as a Universal AI Catalog—providing built-in context and governance for AI across all enterprise data. We operate as an AI-first product organization: coding with AI tools, prototyping early and often, and collaborating tightly with product, engineering, research, and data science to accelerate discovery and ship with velocity.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years designing complex, data-heavy products and systems.
• Strong understanding of data catalogs, governance, and/or marketplace ecosystems.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI into design workflows and product strategy.
• Ability to extract patterns from messy real-world interactions and help teams converge on scalable solutions.
• Track record of shipping high-quality work at speed using code-first, iterative processes.
• Experience maintaining quality in autonomous, high-trust design cultures.
• Ability to move fluidly between conceptual frameworks, data diagrams, workflows, prototypes, user intent, and high-level strategy.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to articulate design concepts and rationale to a diverse set of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Champion a code-first, prototype-driven approach where teams validate ideas with AI-enabled tools (Cursor, Figma, agents etc).
• Lead systems design thinking across the Collaboration, Catalog, Marketplace, and Postgres domains: defining data interaction patterns, behavioral models, object relationships, and semantic structures.
• Partner with senior leadership in product management and engineering as co-architects of AI-driven systems and product and UX strategy to ensure alignment with business objectives and customer needs.
• Bring deep fluency in data platforms, data catalogs, marketplaces, and user mental models for enterprise data ecosystems.
• Manage and grow a diverse talent of curious, technically fluent, agile, high-trust design team, with a focus on career development and AI upskilling.
• Anticipate and guide how AI reshapes user journeys, workflows, and system architecture across these surfaces.
• Oversee multiple projects and scale design resources accordingly, ensuring deadlines are met, your team is effective, and team members are set up for success by setting clear and measurable goals
• Bring sharp business strategy and deep customer understanding into every design decision to deliver maximum user value and business impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees