Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Product Manager role sits in a distinctly SaaS-native problem space: FinOps and billing for a usage-based cloud platform. Cost governance has become a core product surface in modern SaaS, where customers expect transparency, controls, and guidance—not just invoices—especially as data and AI workloads amplify spend variability.
Career-wise, the position offers durable SaaS product experience at the intersection of telemetry, pricing mechanics, and customer outcomes. Work that translates raw usage signals into actionable governance tends to build strong instincts for unit economics, metric design, and trade-offs between platform capability and business impact. The cross-functional nature—linking engineering, finance, value engineering, and customer-facing teams—also mirrors how mature SaaS organizations operationalize product decisions beyond a single roadmap.
This role is best suited to product managers who prefer technically fluent collaboration and are comfortable shaping ambiguous systems into measurable workflows. It fits professionals who like using data to drive prioritization, can align stakeholders with different incentives, and want regular exposure to enterprise-scale customer constraints without shifting into a purely commercial or purely technical track.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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.
The Engine of the Data Cloud The FinOps and Billing team is the financial heartbeat of Snowflake. Every query, every storage byte, and every AI operations on Snowflake generates a signal. Our Cost Governance team operates at the intersection of Big Data and FinOps, turning this massive stream of telemetry into real-time financial intelligence. We are moving beyond simple reporting to build a proactive decision engine that helps customers view, control, and optimize their unit economics easily and efficiently.
We are seeking a Product Manager to help execute on the vision of Native FinOps at Snowflake. In this role, you will bridge the gap between technical execution and business value, working cross-functionally with Engineering, Finance, and our Value Engineering teams. You will also engage with the broader ecosystem, including the FinOps Foundation, to ensure our standards lead the industry. Your mission is to transform cost governance from an operational necessity into a competitive differentiator, empowering customers to use Snowflake as their most efficient data asset.
AS A PRODUCT MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Drive the Strategy: Help define and drive the strategy and roadmap for Snowflake’s cost governance story.
Architect for the Future: Partner deeply with senior engineers and architects to innovate the underlying system and to keep our platform best-in-class.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as the bridge between technical execution and business needs. You will align Roadmap priorities across core product teams, value engineering, finance, and sales teams.
Uncover Insights: Utilize data-driven governance to track key metrics (performance, utilization, margins) and uncover usage patterns that inform our next big bet.
Partner with Customers: Collaborate directly with Platform Architects at our largest enterprise customers to validate designs, gather feedback via preview programs, and solve their most critical scale challenges.
OUR IDEAL PRODUCT MANAGER WILL HAVE:
Experience: 4+ years of Product Management experience. Bonus points if you have worked on cost governance features and systems for cloud products and platforms.
Technical Fluency: You aren't afraid of complex systems. You can discuss API design, data schemas, and architectural trade-offs with engineers.
Analytical Rigor: You have a passion for decomposing large, ambiguous problem areas into clear specifications. You rely on data, not intuition, to make decisions.
Collaborative Influence: A track record of driving alignment on cross-functional projects.
Modern Prototyping Skills: Comfort using modern AI and design tools to rapidly mock up wireframes, prototypes, and PRDs to visualize complex workflows.
Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Why Join This Team?
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?
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?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
