Snowflake

Snowflake

Strategic Finance - Product, AI/ML and Analytics

US-CA-Menlo Park

Sponsorship not specified$250k-$320kDetected 8 days ago
PythonSQLSnowflakeMachine LearningProduct StrategyBusiness DevelopmentFinancial ModelingResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • You will help define the growth model for a frontier AI product portfolio while working at the intersection of strategy, finance, and technology.
  • Help shape product strategy, growth priorities, pricing decisions, and investment tradeoffs.
  • Strategic Finance is the commercial and analytical engine behind Snowflake's product and revenue decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Forecast and Performance Ownership. Own the forecast for AI and Analytics workloads, including revenue, usage, margin, unit economics, leading indicators, and the operating metrics that show where each workload is gaining or losing traction.
  • Lead pricing and monetization strategy for AI workloads.
  • Investment Business Cases. Build decision-ready business cases for major AI and Analytics product and go-to-market investments. Return on investment, investment sizing, risk framing, comparative tradeoffs.
  • Build Planning and Performance Systems. Build the forecast methodology, key performance indicator architecture, decision frameworks, executive narratives, and repeatable reporting that help the team move faster as the workloads scale.
  • People Leadership. Manage and develop a small team of analysts. Set the bar for analytical rigor, executive communication, and product judgment. Cultivate a team that operates as a credible thought partner to Product and Engineering.
  • Executive Narratives. Prepare and deliver high-quality executive and Board materials that connect business performance, product strategy, key risks, and strategic recommendations.
  • Exceptional analytical and financial modeling skills, including building product profit and loss views, operating models, cohort and funnel analyses, pricing models, and unit economics that connect strategy to growth decisions.
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • The ability to translate complex product, usage, customer, and financial data into clear recommendations for Product teams and senior leadership.
  • High attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy, paired with comfort making decisions when data is imperfect and the business is evolving.
  • People management experience.
  • Comfort working directly with product analytics datasets in a cloud data platform.
  • Effective communication.
  • Capable of producing executive-quality narratives that survive Executive Leadership Team and Board review on first submission.
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
  • Familiarity with consumption-based and usage-based pricing in cloud, data, or AI platforms.

Compensation

  • The estimated base salary range for this role is $250,000 to $320,000, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.
  • The successful candidate's starting compensation will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

Benefits

  • Serve as the strategic finance partner to Cortex, Notebooks, Machine Learning, and Analytics product and engineering leaders.
  • Working understanding of AI and machine learning infrastructure and economics: model lifecycle, inference vs. training cost structures, AI commercial models.

Company info

  • The team operates at the intersection of product strategy, pricing, and investment prioritization.
  • Product Finance, the function this role sits within, partners with each product organization on planning, performance, and pricing.
  • We work closely with Product and Engineering leadership, and we partner across Sales, Business Development, and the Executive Leadership Team.
  • Every consequential AI and Analytics investment, monetization, and pricing decision at Snowflake runs through analysis this team produces.
  • We are hiring a senior strategic finance thought partner to help shape Snowflake's AI and Analytics workloads, the company's fastest-growing and most strategically complex product surface.

Equal opportunity

  • Snowflake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
  • 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 http://careers.snowflake.com

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