Staff Product Manager, Growth

Snap•Santa Monica, CA

12h•Hybrid

About The Position

Snap Inc. is a technology company focused on improving communication through its camera-based products. The Product team at Snap Inc. is responsible for shaping user experiences across various areas including Core Growth, Content, Bitmoji, Augmented Reality, AI, and Emerging Products. They aim to enhance user connections, elevate content and AR experiences, and drive the growth of Snapchat's platform. This role is for a Staff Product Manager, Growth, focusing on Snapchat Search.

Requirements

Deep expertise in ML-driven ranking, retrieval, search, or recommendation systems, with the ability to hold your own with engineers on retrieval architecture, training data, and evaluation design.
Ability to develop and communicate a holistic strategy for how an area of products advances a long-term vision, not just a roadmap of features.
Strong judgment about where to invest and what to stop, with the ability to root-cause complex problems and make durable decisions from incomplete information.
Fluency with experimentation and data: you form clear hypotheses, run clean tests, and let the results change your mind.
High degree of ownership and urgency; comfortable prioritizing and operating with ambiguity across a broad scope.
Strong cross-functional collaboration and influence skills that drive execution in fast-moving environments, including with teams that do not report to you.
User-first mindset, with an understanding of how to grow products responsibly and sustainably alongside content quality and safety considerations.
Mentorship instinct: you raise the craft of the product managers around you and contribute to recruiting.
BS/BA degree or equivalent years of practical work experience
8+ years of experience building and shipping products at a technology company; OR a Masters and 7+ years of experience

Nice To Haves

Experience owning an ML-powered product surface, including the model roadmap
Experience on consumer growth teams in a fast-paced B2C environment
Experience with search, discovery, or feed ranking at scale, including semantic or embedding-based retrieval
Experience with A/B testing, experimentation platforms, funnel analysis, cohort analysis, and growth measurement frameworks
Experience unifying ranking or retrieval across multiple product surfaces
Experience building growth loops, improving user journeys, or optimizing high-scale product surfaces
Experience partnering with trust and safety or content policy teams on user-generated content surfaces
Passion for Snap's mission and for building products that help people express themselves, connect with friends, discover content, and have fun together

Responsibilities

Own the product and machine learning roadmap for Snapchat Search, including relevance, retrieval, and ranking.
Grow Search as a destination for discovering people, creators, and content across Snapchat.
Advance the retrieval and ranking systems behind Search, and build the evaluation frameworks and quality bar that determine what ships.
Own how topical content is organized, ranked, and surfaced across Snapchat's web and in-app experiences.
Improve how Snapchatters find and connect with the people they are looking for, partnering closely with friending product and ranking teams.
Define and track the success metrics for Search, and the measurement approach behind them.
Design and run experiments, interpret results rigorously, and recommend when to scale, iterate, or stop based on user impact, business impact, and product quality.
Partner day-to-day with machine learning engineering, design, data science, user research, and trust and safety, and align adjacent teams on shared goals and dependencies.
Set the strategy and communicate it: priorities, progress, learnings, and results, to your team, to cross-functional partners, and to senior leadership.