Senior Product Marketing Engineer

• This role will own the end-to-end benchmarking process, from defining the testing strategy and designing the benchmarking architecture to executing workloads, validating results, and communicating the outcomes. You will partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to evaluate Snowflake products against competitive offerings using rigorous, repeatable, and defensible methodologies
• You will translate technical benchmark results into meaningful customer outcomes and compelling market-facing narratives
• Your work will appear across Snowflake blogs, partner publications, technical papers, presentations, demos, and videos
• You will also closely monitor competitive products, technical claims, and published benchmarks, helping Snowflake respond quickly, credibly, and strategically
• The role will support Snowflake’s broader Analytics portfolio, including Interactive Analytics for real-time use cases, Business Intelligence, Semantic Views, Ontologies, context for AI-powered applications, and core data warehouse engine performance
• Develop and own the technical benchmarking strategy for Snowflake’s Analytics portfolio
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Product Marketing to identify priority products, features, workloads, competitors, and customer scenarios for evaluation
• Design rigorous benchmarking methodologies, testing scopes, workload definitions, success criteria, and validation processes
• Contribute to the architecture, development, and ongoing improvement of a scalable and repeatable benchmarking platform
• Configure environments, execute benchmark tests, troubleshoot technical issues, analyze results, and validate findings with engineering and product stakeholders
• Ensure that benchmark methodologies and conclusions are accurate, reproducible, transparent, and defensible
• Evaluate products and capabilities that may still be under development or have not yet been publicly released
• Translate complex technical findings into clear customer outcomes, business value, and differentiated product messaging
• Create compelling technical content, including Snowflake blogs, partner blogs, benchmark reports, presentations, sales enablement materials, demos, and videos
• Present benchmarking methodologies and results to internal teams, customers, partners, analysts, and broader technical audiences
• Monitor competitive analytics products, architectural developments, performance claims, product launches, and published benchmarks
• Develop timely and thoughtful responses to competitive benchmark claims, working closely with Product, Engineering, Competitive Intelligence, Communications, Legal, and other relevant stakeholders
• Build a strong internal point of view on competitive performance, architectural differentiation, and the strengths and limitations of different benchmarking approaches
• Provide benchmark-driven insights to Product Management and Engineering that help inform product improvements, roadmap priorities, and future product direction
• Enable Sales, Solutions Engineering, and partner teams to confidently communicate Snowflake’s technical differentiation
• Establish measurement and reporting processes to evaluate the reach, influence, and business impact of benchmarking programs

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans
• Health savings accounts
• Robust retirement plans
• Life and disability insurance
• Weekly online lunch and learns
• Virtual workout classes
• Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
• On-demand mental health and wellness programs
• Fertility benefits and family planning resources
• Generous time-off and various leave plans
• Onsite and Remote Work
• Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
• New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Quarterly bonus or commission program

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing and executing technical benchmarks, performance tests, workload comparisons, or competitive product evaluations
• Ability to design fair, repeatable, and technically defensible testing methodologies
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts without losing accuracy or credibility
• Ability to collaborate deeply with Product Management and Engineering teams on highly technical products and features
• 6+ years of experience in product engineering, performance engineering, technical product marketing, competitive engineering, solutions architecture, data engineering, or a related technical role
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate unexpected results and distinguish product behavior from configuration, architecture, or testing issues
• Strong understanding of modern data platforms, cloud data warehouses, analytics engines, and business intelligence architectures
• Experience working with SQL, data modeling, query performance analysis, workload management, and large-scale analytical systems
• BS or BA in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to manage multiple benchmarking initiatives and respond quickly to changing market and competitive priorities
• Experience creating technical content for external audiences, such as blogs, reports, presentations, demos, webinars, or videos
• Comfort working with confidential products, unreleased features, and sensitive competitive information
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical capabilities and performance results into customer outcomes and differentiated business value
• Strong cross-functional leadership and organizational skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority
• Experience working at a cloud data platform, database, data warehouse, business intelligence, analytics, or AI infrastructure company
• Experience benchmarking platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Fabric, or other analytical data systems
• Experience with performance testing tools, workload automation, infrastructure-as-code, cloud environments, and benchmarking frameworks
• Familiarity with semantic layers, metrics stores, ontologies, real-time analytics, interactive analytics, and AI-powered business intelligence
• Experience evaluating total cost of ownership, price-performance, concurrency, scalability, elasticity, reliability, and operational complexity
• Experience producing technical videos, live demonstrations, conference presentations, or other developer-focused content
• Understanding of competitive intelligence practices and experience developing responses to competitive technical claims
• Experience collaborating with technology partners on joint benchmarks, technical validation, or co-marketing content
• Graduate degree in a technical or business discipline

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