Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.

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Snowflake Design is a world-class team of curious problem solvers on a mission to evolve and improve the way the world works with data.

Great design is a strategic differentiator for Snowflake but that differentiation doesn’t come automatically. We’re looking for talented, collaborative, and technical designers to join the team and drive our Design System forward while doing career-defining work.

At Snowflake, Product Designers identify opportunities, shape the vision of our products, and ensure we’re delivering highly crafted, honed products that our customers love.

As we continue to develop new products and push our existing products forward, we’re looking Designers to redefine design tooling for working with data and AI.

Our designs at Snowflake scale to a wide variety of surfaces and experiences like data visualization, code editors, monitoring and alerting, marketplace experiences, collaboration, and more.

YOUR IMPACT :

• Develop and evangelize the strategy and craft of our design system to ensure it is making an impact for our customers and internal teams
• Align cross-functional teams and stakeholders on the importance of design systems for efficiently building high-quality products
• Promote design excellence and quality standards across Snowflake through collaboration with the design team and partners

YOUR ROLE :

• Identify and drive opportunities to create a vision and up-level our design system
• Collaborate and effectively influence your engineering and product partners to design and deliver excellent products
• Work end-to-end by identifying opportunities, establishing the vision, and working with engineering to deliver high quality, robust solutions
• Collaborate with the broader design team to ensure a seamless product experience
• Partner with researchers, data scientists, and product managers to drive solutions by leveraging qualitative and quantitative customer insights
• Deliver detailed, robust components and work directly with engineering to ensure a high quality product reaches the hands of our customers
• Develop strong rationale for design decisions, and articulate your perspective

YOUR EXPERIENCE :

• 12+ years as a product designer
• Deep design systems experience
• Experience collaborating closely with engineering and product partners
• Experience working with data and technical complexity
• End-to-end ownership of meaningful features or surfaces
• Your end-user advocacy has shaped product experiences you can point to
• Shipped products that have simplified complex workflows
• You have iterated on shipped products based on customer usage and feedback

NICE TO HAVE :

• Enterprise design systems experience
• Experience in fast-paced environments with quick delivery and iteration cycles
• Ability to prototype either alone or with engineering partners to get out of mockups faster
• Interest in the data space and cutting edge technologies
• Experience with web technologies like HTML, Javascript / React, and CSS

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.

COMPENSATION :

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $177,000 - $270,200.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

• This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes : medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance;
• 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave;

employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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?

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