Snowflake Computing

Senior User Researcher

Snowflake Computing • $135K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of user research experience with demonstrable impact on customer and business outcomes.
  • Expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, with the ability to justify chosen approaches.
  • Proven ability to build trust with cross-functional teams and navigate complex product decisions.
  • Experience linking customer needs to product and business objectives, uncovering hidden opportunities.
  • Familiarity with integrating product usage data into research for comprehensive problem understanding.
  • Demonstrated application of AI in research, with sound judgment on its use.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and marketing teams to prioritize impactful initiatives.
  • Develop a deep understanding of customer needs, product areas, and business goals.
  • Lead both qualitative and quantitative research, selecting appropriate methods for each decision.
  • Make informed product and go-to-market decisions, managing trade-offs and ensuring alignment.
  • Analyze customer research and product usage data to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Leverage AI to enhance research processes, maintaining high standards for results.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape product direction and customer experience.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Chance to influence product and business strategy directly.
  • Access to cutting-edge AI tools and methodologies.
  • Commitment to employee growth and innovation.
Full Job Description
As a Senior User Researcher at Snowflake, you'll shape what we build and how customers experience it. You'll work alongside product, design, engineering, and marketing leads to set priorities, make tough calls, and bring ideas to market. Your deep understanding of customer needs and business goals will make you a trusted partner in those decisions.

This role calls for deep research craft, strong business judgment, and fluency with AI. You'll know when to move quickly, when to dig deeper, and how to turn what you learn into better outcomes for Snowflake's customers.

What you'll do
  • Partner with product, design, engineering, and marketing leads to set priorities that make a meaningful difference for Snowflake's customers.
  • Become an expert on your customers' needs and goals, your product area, and the business objectives your team is working toward.
  • Lead qualitative and quantitative research, choosing the methods and level of rigor each decision demands.
  • Make product and go-to-market decisions alongside your partners. Work through tradeoffs, build alignment, and carry decisions through launch and adoption.
  • Combine customer research, product usage data, and prior findings to identify opportunities and understand what needs to change.
  • Identify where AI can strengthen your research, apply it deliberately, and hold the results to a high standard.
What we're looking for
  • 5+ years of industry user research experience, with examples of decisions that changed because of your work and the customer or business outcomes that followed.
  • Deep experience across qualitative and quantitative methods. You can explain how you chose an approach, what its limits were, and why the evidence was sufficient for the decision.
  • A track record of earning the trust of cross-functional leads and working with them through difficult product or go-to-market tradeoffs.
  • Experience connecting customer needs to product and business goals, including identifying opportunities that weren't apparent from the initial question.
  • Experience using product usage data alongside primary research to reach a more complete understanding of a problem.
  • Examples of AI applications you've put into practice in your research work-and the judgment you used to decide where they belonged.

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

About Snowflake Computing

Snowflake is a cloud-based data-warehousing company that was founded in 2012. The company provides a data platform that allows customers to store and analyze data using cloud-based infrastructure. Snowflake's platform is designed to be highly scalable and flexible, allowing customers to easily add or remove computing resources as needed. The company's customers include a wide range of businesses, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Snowflake has received significant funding from investors and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.
Learn more about Snowflake Computing
Size
2,037 employees
Market Cap
$44.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$539.1 million
Founded
2012
Revenue
$592 million
NASDAQ

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