Senior Manager, Product Data Science

We're looking for a Senior Manager to lead our App Experience & Marketplace Data Science team in the Product organization.

You will lead a team covering app experience (UI, growth platform, analyst/admin/data engineer tools and experience) and data marketplace areas.

- Well designed high value apps are essential to make it simple for our customers to complete billions of SQL queries, deploy python, and use powerful AI tools every day

- Data marketplace makes it easy with a click of a button to get access to a wide range of 3rd party data instead of having to contact a sales representative at a data vendor and setup and maintain a complex API.

All the projects above allow the data scientist to work on very large datasets, and a variety of diverse interesting projects that span the domains of data engineering, analytics, statistics, and machine learning.

In this role, you will both lead a team, and be hands-on as a tech lead in this area. The manager will interact frequently with senior management, product managers, and engineering managers. The ability to effectively communicate complex technical ideas to a wide audience is crucial.

- Serve as the tech lead/manager of a Data Science team in the Product organization, leveraging AI tools and functions (e.g., Cortex AI functions, Agents, CoCo) to accelerate product development and data-driven decision-making.

- Mentor team members in core DS disciplines and on the effective and governed use of generative AI tools, including establishing AI best practices and guardrails.

- Drive the team's focus toward AI-native deliverables, such as building out Agentic services, semantic views, and conducting AI evaluation for new product features, strategically shifting away from automatable work.

- Be hands-on by serving as the primary data scientist on projects, specifically focusing on validating the accuracy and output quality of AI-powered analysis and developing POCs for new AI-driven product features.

- Partner with technical and business stakeholders to not only come up with solutions to stated problems, but encourage and enable the team to develop bottoms up ideas.

- Maximize the impact of the team, by making sure the data scientists have the best and correct context, and ensuring their skill sets are properly matched to the project.

- Grow the team, when appropriate. Convince job candidates on why Snowflake, and the product data science team is an awesome place to work

- Masters or PhD in Math/Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Science or related quantitative field

- 5+ years of experience in building, managing, and leading a high-performing data science team

- Experience in using data science to optimize the user experience.

- Demonstrated experience with internal AI tools to build scalable data pipelines and drive analytical workflows.

- Advanced knowledge/experience in machine learning and Large Language Models (LLMs), including the ability to critically evaluate and validate AI/ML outputs (e.g., using AI evaluation methods and understanding the limitations of AI Functions).

- Ability to communicate and influence complex ideas to cross-functional stakeholders.