Senior Director, Applications Engineering

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is building the data and AI platform for the agentic enterprise. Enterprise Apps & Agentic Systems is applying that same standard internally by redesigning business domains from first principles and turning high-value workflows into software-defined, AI-native products. We are hiring a Sr. Director to make Finance, OTC, Revenue, People, and Legal domains more agentic. This leader will own the product and engineering strategy across the portfolio, moving beyond application management to deliver intelligent products that understand context, act across systems, operate within guardrails, and involve people when judgment is required. This leader will work directly with busines [... source excerpt omitted ...] minated, redesigned, or delegated to software. They will build the teams, product model, technical foundations, and operating mechanisms needed to move quickly from opportunity to production and deliver measurable business impact CORE MISSION: Transform enterprise operations across Finance, People, and Legal by redesigning end-to-end workflows into AI-native products rather than adding incremental features to legacy apps. Combine domain expertise, enterprise data, workflow automation, autonomous agents, and controls into a coherent operating experience. Establish a product-led model where cross-functional teams co-own strategy, adoption, reliability, and business impact. Build [... source excerpt omitted ...] lable AI product lifecycle to rapidly prototype, evaluate, deploy, and scale intelligent agents across the organization. AS A SR. DIRECTOR, APPLICATIONS ENGINEERING AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Define and execute the multi-year product and engineering roadmap across Finance, HR, and Legal domains, aligning investments with high-value business outcomes. Partner with C-level and executive leaders (CFO, HR, Legal) to challenge existing processes and redesign future-state operating models. Deliver production-grade agents and AI-native workflows that use trusted context and enterprise tools to complete multi-step work, manage exceptions, and escalate with clear explanations and auditab