Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Product Manager role sits in a core layer of a modern SaaS platform: metadata, backups, and cloning. In a cloud data product like Snowflake’s, these capabilities are not surface features, they are the underlying systems that determine how reliably customers can govern, protect, and operationalize data across analytics and AI workloads. That makes the scope especially relevant to SaaS businesses selling into complex enterprise environments.
For a SaaS career, the long-term value here is exposure to platform product management where success depends on measurable adoption, durability, and operational outcomes rather than UI iteration. Work across backup and metadata entities builds fluency in how SaaS products scale through consistency, integrations, and clear interfaces for other teams and tools, including infrastructure-as-code and emerging AI use cases. The emphasis on metrics and tradeoffs also translates well to other infrastructure, data, and developer-focused SaaS products.
This role will suit an early-career PM who prefers technical problem framing, structured execution, and close partnership with engineering. It is a strong match for someone motivated by ambiguous platform questions, comfortable leaning on data to prioritize, and interested in how enterprise SaaS earns trust through reliability, governance, and predictable operations.
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
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud is the unified platform and connected ecosystem of organizations building, using, and sharing data, applications, and AI. At the foundation of this platform is metadata, powering how customers discover, understand, govern, and operate on their data at scale.
As customer environments become increasingly complex and AI driven, Snowflake’s metadata platform must evolve to be faster, more accurate, and more accessible. Core capabilities across Snowflake Backups, Cloning, and Metadata Entities are critical to ensuring data durability, enabling governance and cost visibility, and supporting emerging AI and open ecosystem use cases.
We are seeking a Product Manager to drive execution across Snowflake Backups, Cloning, and Metadata Entities. This role is ideal for an early career PM who wants to work on deeply technical platform problems, own meaningful end to end capabilities, and directly impact how customers protect and operate on their data.
In This Role, You Will
Own and deliver end to end platform capabilities across Snowflake Backups, Cloning, and Metadata Entities such as incremental backups, Iceberg backups, and metadata supporting AI and Terraform use cases
Drive measurable impact on key business outcomes, including increasing the amount of data protected through backup and disaster recovery capabilities
Improve how metadata is accessed, structured, and contextualized across the platform to support analytics, governance, and AI workloads
Partner closely with engineering to define clear requirements, make effective tradeoffs, and deliver high quality systems at scale
Translate ambiguous platform and customer problems into structured execution plans with clear milestones and success metrics
Collaborate with go to market and customer facing teams to drive adoption across capabilities you own.
Work cross functionally with teams across storage, compute, governance, and AI to ensure consistency and integration across the platform
Use data and metrics to prioritize work, evaluate impact, and continuously improve platform capabilities
Our Ideal Candidate Has
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from a top tier undergraduate program
Early career experience as an Associate Product Manager or a background in investment banking, venture capital, or top tier management consulting
Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with comfort using data to inform product decisions
Interest in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and platforms that power enterprise AI and data workloads
Comfort using AI tools to improve productivity, insight generation, and execution.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
A growth mindset and eagerness to learn from senior PMs and engineers
Why Join This Team?
This role offers the opportunity to work on foundational platform capabilities across Snowflake Backups, Cloning, and Metadata Entities, directly impacting how customers protect, understand, and operate on their data. You will gain hands on experience building and scaling metadata systems, contribute to critical business outcomes such as data protection and platform observability, and develop strong product fundamentals through close collaboration with experienced engineering and product leaders.
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.
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
