# Senior Product Marketing Engineer

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA, Bellevue, WA, California
**Role:** Product Marketing
**Salary:** $165k – $216k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Data Modeling, query performance analysis, benchmarking, performance testing, cloud data warehouses, analytics engines, Business Intelligence, Competitive Analysis, technical content creation
**Posted:** 2026-07-27

> Lead technical benchmarking for Snowflake's Analytics portfolio, designing and executing rigorous tests against competitors, translating results into customer value and content, and partnering with Product, Engineering, and Sales teams. Requires 6+ years in technical roles with deep data platform expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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.

## Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in product engineering, performance engineering, technical product marketing, competitive engineering, solutions architecture, data engineering, or a related technical role.
- Strong understanding of modern data platforms, cloud data warehouses, analytics engines, and business intelligence architectures.
- Hands-on experience designing and executing technical benchmarks, performance tests, workload comparisons, or competitive product evaluations.
- Experience working with SQL, data modeling, query performance analysis, workload management, and large-scale analytical systems.
- Ability to design fair, repeatable, and technically defensible testing methodologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate unexpected results and distinguish product behavior from configuration, architecture, or testing issues.
- Ability to collaborate deeply with Product Management and Engineering teams on highly technical products and features.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts without losing accuracy or credibility.
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical capabilities and performance results into customer outcomes and differentiated business value.
- Experience creating technical content for external audiences, such as blogs, reports, presentations, demos, webinars, or videos.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and organizational skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
- Ability to manage multiple benchmarking initiatives and respond quickly to changing market and competitive priorities.
- Comfort working with confidential products, unreleased features, and sensitive competitive information.
- BS or BA in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

## Preferred Qualifications
- 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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