Staff Product Manager - Developer Platform

Snowflake•Menlo Park, CA

13d

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. Snowflake is the Data Cloud, a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside Snowflake, the Developer Platform team is on a mission to win the hearts and minds of developers by making it seamless and intuitive to build with data. Our vision is to empower data engineers and app developers by delivering an exceptional, developer-first experience built on a foundation of simplicity, familiarity, and ease of use. We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to define the strategy for the foundational infrastructure that powers the developer experience on Snowflake. As a Staff Product Manager, you will take ownership of the vision for how developers connect to and interact with the Data Cloud. This is a role for a seasoned product leader who can operate across a complex portfolio—managing widely adopted, mission-critical systems while simultaneously incubating new capabilities. You will lead the strategy for a critical pillar of our platform, encompassing our connectivity layer, programmatic interfaces, and automation tools. You will partner with senior engineering leaders to drive a multi-year roadmap, moving beyond feature execution to solve fundamental architectural and developer experience challenges at scale.

Requirements

8+ years of Product Management experience, with a proven track record of shipping complex, developer-facing platforms, cloud services, or technical infrastructure products.
Experience with Platform Migrations: A background in leading architectural overhauls, refactoring legacy systems, or managing platform migrations is highly desirable.
Full Lifecycle Leadership: Experience managing a portfolio from 0-to-1 incubation through to scaling and maturity.
Technical Depth: The ability to be a "technically credible partner" to senior engineering leaders, capable of leading deep discussions about product architecture, technical trade-offs, and long-term vision.
Strategic Communication: Excellent skills in presenting to large audiences and influencing stakeholders across all functions and levels of the organization.
Strong Conviction: The ability to create a compelling roadmap with crisp justification, maintaining a clear point of view even when the path forward is ambiguous.

Responsibilities

Own the Vision & Strategy: Define the long-term direction for our developer tools and connectivity portfolio. You will determine where we invest to drive the next phase of growth for the platform.
Lead Major Architectural Transformations: Drive the strategy for modernizing our core connectivity infrastructure. You will lead the transition from legacy architectures to a unified, high-performance foundation that future-proofs the platform.
Manage a Mixed-Maturity Portfolio: Develop strategies tailored to different lifecycle stages. You will drive reliability and performance for massive-scale mature products while accelerating adoption for new developer experiences.
Decompose Complexity: Take ambiguous, high-stakes engineering challenges and decompose them into clear, multi-year roadmaps that align with company-level strategy.
Force-Multiply the Team: Partner closely with and provide mentorship to Senior Product Managers within your pillar, ensuring strategic alignment and raising the bar for product execution across the group.
Drive Organizational Alignment: Navigate dependencies across Engineering, Security, and Product, anticipating risks and removing obstacles to ensure delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives.