Senior Product Manager, Snowflake
Developer Experience
$214-327.7k
+ Bonus and equity
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud
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Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$214-327.7k
+ Bonus and equity
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to mobilize the world's data.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager who is passionate about developer experience and productivity
- We’re looking for candidates with strong technical and product management skills that can operate at both the strategic level and execution level
- Have 10+ years of relevant industry experience, including a meaningful portion of those as an engineer/developer and a minimum of 5 years as a Product Manager
- Experience in building and improving the tools and processes used by engineers to build the services and features our customers use
- Significant experience working with Engineering and Data Science
- Familiarity with best practices around the software development lifecycle including building, testing, and deploying to production
- In-depth experience of devising, aligning around, and driving towards measurable developer productivity customer outcomes
- Be able to understand the breadth of our product line as well as get technical and be able to drill into details on owned areas
- Have proven experience defining a product vision and roadmap and managing incremental execution through successful launches
- Be highly data driven, knowing how to get, understand, and use quantitative and qualitative data to make the best possible decisions
- Move quickly and constantly iterate, moving from hypotheses developed from customer conversations, data and insights to running tests to confirm those hypotheses, to learnings and iteration towards a solution that customers didn’t even realize they wanted but now can’t live without
- Operate and think of both the customer experience layer and deeper in the technology stack. Know whether the limitations of the current systems and tools are reasonable or if we should rebuild to enable new capabilities
- Drive execution with a cross-functional team, ensuring that everyone is working towards the same goals and impact
What the job involves
- You will have an immense impact on the company's entire engineering organization as you remove blockers and friction that slow our engineers, paving the road to innovation and product leadership
- The role has high visibility and exposure to our Executive Leadership Team and your success will have a lasting impact on how Snowflake developers do their job day in and day out
- In this role you will work closely with our engineering teams to identify the roadmap and priorities for accelerating our engineers' enjoyment and productivity
- You’ll be responsible for the end to end developer experience spanning onboarding, the developer tooling and environment, testing, CI/CD, and many other systems and products that our engineers rely on
- Define and evolve the product vision for critical pieces of the Snowflake’s Developer Experience. Help us evolve the internal products and services we build to help our engineers succeed
- Understand the developer journey on building, testing, and debugging code during both the inner and outer loop development stages, and ensure our tools and recommended flows cater to both
- Work hand in hand with our Snowflake engineers (your immediate customers), engaging in frequent conversations to understand their needs, gather feedback, and overall ensure that product direction is in tune with customer needs
- Become an SME in various best practices for building and testing different programming languages (and specifically Java, C++, Python, and Golang.) and use those insights to align the team and prioritize investments in upgrading to those best practices
- Understand the various build tools (Bazel, Maven, Cmake, ninja, Gradle), and the build-dependent activities as viewed from the customer’s perspective and create a set of recommended paths for customers based on their needs
- Develop an understanding of testing best practices and the similarities and differences between the purpose and impact of unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end functional, and performance testing. Then create a cohesive approach that minimizes the need of customers to relearn how to test code as they progress through the SDLC or when they switch to different teams
- Be fluent with concepts such as test-driven development and other mature software engineering practices that promote development of high quality software, and work with the Eng, DS, Docs, TPM and other teams to make this common language for the entire company
- Drive the team to make customer-outcome oriented decisions, and define & track metrics that would guarantee improvement to the whole software development journey
Our take
Developed as a fresh alternative to the archaic systems of data governance and information silos, Snowflake is a frictionless cloud data platform that removes the barriers preventing organizations of all sizes from unleashing the true value of their data.
The company equips organizations with a single, integrated platform that offers the only data warehouse built for the cloud; instant, secure and governed access to their entire network of data; and a core architecture to enable many types of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications.
Major competitors include Azure, SQL and AWS, and Snowflake has managed to keep ahead of the competition, cementing itself as a global force. Across its 1300+ partners, the company's cloud manages over 250PB of data (with more than 515 million data workloads running every day). Its continued focus on product R&D and partnership expansion have Snowflake well-positioned to manage itself amidst the competition.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2020
$479m
LATE VC
Oct 2018
$450m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance plans
- Health savings accounts
- Robust retirement plans
- Life and disability insurance
- Weekly online lunch and learns
- Virtual workout classes
- Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
- On-demand mental health and wellness programs
- Fertility benefits and family planning resources
- Generous time-off and various leave plans
- Onsite and Remote Work
- Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
- New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Quarterly bonus or commission program
Company values
- Put Customers First - We only succeed when our customers succeed
- Integrity Always - Be open, honest and respectful
- Think Big - Be ambitious and have big goals
- Be Excellent - Quality and excellence count in everything we do
- Get It Done - Results matter. Work hard and smart
- Own It - Build our product and our company like it’s yours, because it is
- Make Each Other the Best - Treat people with kindness and respect
- Embrace Each Other's Differences - Accept and appreciate everyone from every walk of life
Company HQ
Bozeman, MT
Articles
Leadership
Benoit Dageville
(Co-Founder)Benoit, a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning databases, founded Snowflake after 10+ years at Oracle as a lead architect. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has 270+ patents.
Thierry Cruanes
(Co-Founder)Thierry is a leading expert in query optimization and parallel execution. He has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Database Systems and is a named inventor on 200+ patents.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Snowflake
- At Snowflake, embracing each others’ differences is a core value of our organization. We recognize and appreciate the importance of creating an environment in which all employees feel valued, included, and empowered to do their best work and bring great ideas to the table. Promoting the values of diversity and fostering an inclusive workplace culture takes each of us working together, caring deeply, and acting intentionally.
- Since Day 1, Snowflake and its culture belong to each of us, We “own it.” Owning it means we continually look for ways to improve and it’s in that spirit that our Diversity Council was formed. Our Council spans every functional area with an eye towards diverse representation across a range of demographics - 50% female, 50% persons of color, 21% LGBTQ, 7% persons with disabilities, and four generations. The Council narrowed in on three priority areas to focus our initiatives and impact positive change.
- 1. Enabling employee and community readiness by creating focus groups and using data to reveal deeper insights into our community and our specific needs and challenges to guide our future efforts and target initiatives.
- 2. Empowering employees’ voices by organizing outlets for conversation, spotlighting different employee stories, building mentorship programs, and supporting cultural inclusion.
- 3. Building external partnerships to broaden demographic representation in our candidate pipeline and educational partnerships to enable equitable opportunities for generations to come.
- As a company of action, we are committed to managing and measuring our forward progress around diversity and inclusion. And because we are a data company, the approach of gaining insights from the data, setting targets, measuring results, and iterating is in our DNA. We have put in place the foundational groundwork to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion for right now and for the future of Snowflake.
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