Staff Product Manager - Developer Experience and Test Pyramid

Snowflake; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Staff Product Manager for Developer Experience to own an AI-forward developer platform and validation strategy. You will drive the transformation of testing suites, integrate AI to generate test cases, and reduce friction for engineers working with internal tools and APIs.

This senior role emphasizes ownership and strategic impact across the development lifecycle. You will partner with CI/CD and engineering leadership to ensure seamless handoffs from local environments to

Qualifications

• Experience shipping developer-facing tools or technical infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and validation at scale.
• Proven ability to treat internal users as high-value customers.
• Experience with platform product mindset and AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI-native validation strategy and test-generation initiatives.
• Define and execute a roadmap for an AI-assisted developer platform.
• Own product validation strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Collaborate with CI/CD and engineering leadership to ensure smooth handoffs.
• Oversee a portfolio of developer-facing capabilities, APIs/SDKs, and local testing tools.
• Partner with engineering and data science to guide architecture decisions.

Skills

Product Management

Developer Tools

AI/ML

SDLC

Platform Products

Data-driven

Job description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. We seek AI‑native thinkers who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work and to treat AI as a high‑trust collaborator that is core to solving problems and accelerating impact.

As a Staff Product Manager for Developer Experience, you will lead the mission to build an industry‑leading, AI‑forward developer experience for the engineers at Snowflake. This high‑impact, high‑ownership role makes you the single‑threaded owner (DRI) for our internal developer platform and product validation strategy.

Responsibilities

• Drive AI‑Native Validation: Lead the transformation of our testing suites by integrating AI to generate test cases, identify regression risks, and optimize test selection, accelerating time‑to‑impact.
• Redefine Developer Workflow: Build an AI‑forward developer experience that removes friction from the inner loop of development, ensuring engineers can validate and iterate on their ideas in seconds, not hours.
• Architect the Test Pyramid: Define the vision and roadmap for product validation, shaping the strategy across unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing for an optimized, AI‑assisted validation model.
• Manage a Strategic Portfolio: Oversee a diverse set of developer‑facing capabilities, including development environments, local testing tools, and programmatic interfaces (APIs/SDKs).
• Partner Across Engineering: Work closely with the CI/CD PM and engineering leadership to ensure a seamless handoff between the developer's local environment and our global deployment pipelines.
• Drive Technical Strategy: Collaborate with engineering and data science to make high‑stakes decisions about architecture and protocol standards, ensuring our internal platform scales with Snowflake’s growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Product Management experience, with a proven track record of shipping developer‑facing tools or technical infrastructure.
• Deep Technical Fluency: Strong background in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), with expertise in testing strategies and automated validation at scale.
• Platform‑First Mindset: Experience building platform products that serve other engineers and treating internal users as high‑value customers.
• AI‑Native Thinking: Innate curiosity and proven ability to treat AI as a collaborator to solve complex engineering bottlenecks.
• Strategic Execution: Ability to take broad, complex problem spaces—such as optimizing the test pyramid for a distributed system— and decompose them into actionable, multi‑quarter roadmaps.
• Data‑Driven Decision Making: Highly analytical mindset, using metrics (e.g., test flakiness, build duration, developer sentiment) to prioritize backlogs effectively.

Bonus Points For

• Previous hand‑on experience as a software engineer.
• Experience building or managing internal developer platforms in a high‑growth cloud environment.
• Familiarity with modern data stack architectures or AI/ML pipelines.