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Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential and people too. With a culture thats 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 worldclass 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 doesnt come automatically. Were seeking a Senior Product Design Manager who thrives in highvelocity, experimental environments, thinks in AIsystems and code, and leads teams confidently through ambiguity.

You will oversee design for Collaboration, Horizon Catalog, Marketplace, and Postgres , driving new AInative 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 Catalogproviding builtin context and governance for AI across all enterprise data.

We operate as an AIfirst 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.

Responsibilities

• Champion a codefirst, prototypedriven approach where teams validate ideas with AIenabled 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 coarchitects of AIdriven 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, hightrust 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.

Ideal Candidate

• 810+ years designing complex, dataheavy 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 realworld interactions and help teams converge on scalable solutions.
• Track record of shipping highquality work at speed using codefirst, iterative processes.
• Experience maintaining quality in autonomous, hightrust design cultures.
• Ability to move fluidly between conceptual frameworks, data diagrams, workflows, prototypes, user intent, and highlevel strategy.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to articulate design concepts and rationale to a diverse set of stakeholders.

Why Join Snowflake Design?

As an AIforward team, we bring together designers, researchers, content designers, and design engineers who think in systems, build with speed to customer value, and iterate in code alongside engineering to bring clarity to complexity.

We move fast, push boundaries, and close the gap between imagination and realitybut we also laugh a lot, support each other through the hard parts, and make space for real human connection. Fun, grit, and high standards go hand in hand here.

We lead with high standards and deep compassion, building a culture where curiosity, velocity, and craft coexist. If you want to define how data and AI shape the next generation of intelligent products, wed love to build it with you.

Additional Details

• Hybrid Role: Based in Menlo Park, CA (3 days per week)

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the companys confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the companys data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employees duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Compensation & Benefits

The estimated base salary range for this role is $232,000 $333,500. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflakes bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidates starting salary will be determined based on permissible, nondiscriminatory 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.

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