Senior Product Manager | Developer Experience
- Category: Software Developer Jobs
- Location: San Mateo, California
- Job Type: Full Time / Part Time
- Salary: Estimated: $ 15K to 35K
- Published on: 2025/09/21
Job highlights
Identified by Google from the original job post
Qualifications
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
Know whether the limitations of the current systems and tools are reasonable or if we should rebuild to enable new capabilities
Benefits
The estimated base salary range for this role is $214,000 - $327,700
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location
This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits
Responsibilities
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
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
Operate and think of both the customer experience layer and deeper in the technology stack
Drive execution with a cross-functional team, ensuring that everyone is working towards the same goals and impact
It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential
Job description
Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
The success and effectiveness of our growing 1500 person engineering team is the most critical factor in helping customers succeed with Snowflake. Ensuring our internal developer tools and products enable our engineers to focus their full attention on new services and features ensures they can improve and expand our customers' experience with Snowflake. We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager who is passionate about developer experience and productivity. 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.
We’re looking for candidates with strong technical and product management skills that can operate at both the strategic level and execution level. At Snowflake, we put our customers first and want to continue building products that our customers love.
AS A SNOWFLAKE SENIOR/PRINCIPAL PRODUCT MANAGER, YOU WILL:
• 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.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL:
• 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.
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
• The estimated base salary range for this role is $214,000 - $327,700.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
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