# Senior Director, Applications Engineering

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $320k – $460k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, LLMs, AI Agents, Ai Orchestration, Tool Integration, Ai Evaluation, Snowflake, Cloud Data Platforms, Workflow Automation, Product Strategy, Software Architecture, Data Governance, Sox Controls, Responsible Ai
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Leads the product and engineering strategy for AI-native enterprise applications across Finance, HR, and Legal, partnering with executives to transform workflows into intelligent products. Requires 15+ years in enterprise technology, product management, or software engineering and substantial multidisciplinary leadership experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and execute a multi-year product and engineering roadmap across Finance, HR, and Legal domains.
- Partner with C-suite and executive leaders to redesign operating models and workflows.
- Deliver production-grade AI agents and AI-native workflows that complete multi-step work, manage exceptions, and provide explanations and auditability.
- Establish a product-led operating model with shared ownership of strategy, adoption, reliability, controls, and business impact.
- Define software architecture and engineering standards for AI products, including orchestration, context retrieval, tool integration, safety, compliance, latency, and cost.
- Build reusable AI patterns and modular platforms for deploying agentic capabilities.
- Lead cross-functional product pods accountable for adoption, workflow completion, and measurable value.
- Ensure governance, auditability, SOX controls, data privacy, and security standards.
- Define operational metrics for automation, cycle-time reduction, exception management, and ROI.
- Hire, mentor, and scale product and engineering teams.
- Manage portfolio budgets, vendor strategies, and technology partnerships.

## Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology, product management, or software engineering.
- 5+ years leading multidisciplinary organizations at Director level or above.
- Record of building and scaling software-defined products and AI-native or intelligent workflows in production with measurable business impact.
- Strong grounding in modern AI architectures, including LLM and agent patterns, orchestration, tools, and evaluation.
- Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake.
- First-principles product mindset focused on workflow simplification, rapid prototyping, outcome ownership, and user-centric design.
- Experience building product-led organizations, managing managers, and setting a high talent bar across product, program, engineering, and domain leadership.
- Ability to move from ambiguity to working products, learn from usage, simplify fragmented landscapes, and prioritize based on business value.
- Executive presence and ability to collaborate with C-suite stakeholders.
- Knowledge of compliance, audit, SOX controls, data governance, and responsible AI practices.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $320,000–$460,000.

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