Senior Specialist, Product Strategy & Operations

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves live in the moment learn about the world and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends family and the world and Specs Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human in addition to Bitmoji Saturn and other digital services.

Were looking for a Senior Specialist Product Strategy & Operations to join our lean high-agency Product Strategy Ops & GTM team. Our mission is simple: bring structure and momentum to how Snapchat plans executes and launches products. This role sits at the intersection of strategy data and product and your job is to make the product org smarter and faster.

Youll own end-to-end work streams that directly influence what we build and how we resource it. Youll work closely with Product Managers Data Science and cross-functional partners to analyze opportunities surface trade-offs and help ensure our roadmap is aligned with our biggest bets.

This is not a theoretical role. Youll be expected to move quickly structure ambiguous problems and translate analysis into real product decisions.

What youll do:

• Own targeted strategic analyses including opportunity sizing competitive research and first-party data exploration to help inform what we should build and when

• Build and maintain a clear view of how team-level priorities and resourcing map to our highest-impact opportunities; surface mismatches during quarterly planning cycles

• Partner with PMs and Product Ops on feature proposals helping frame trade-offs and sequence decisions in support of our quarterly and annual planning process

• Develop clear concise memos frameworks and presentations that distill your findings into simple actionable recommendations for product and leadership

• Identify friction points in the product development lifecycle and propose process improvements that reduce overhead and improve cross-functional alignment

• Build lightweight tools or dashboards to track evolving priorities decisions and assumptions over time

• Collaborate with Data Science to establish success metrics and assess trade-offs across key product initiatives

• Interface with XFN counterparts including Design Engineering Marketing and Comms to support coordinated execution on strategic priorities

What success looks like:

• Your analyses directly influence roadmap decisions and resource allocation. PMs see you as a trusted thought partner not just an analyst.

• You maintain a reliable real-time pulse on where our biggest product opportunities are and where investment may be misaligned.

• You surface the right questions at the right time helping the team stay focused on moving the biggest rocks not just the most visible ones.

• You bring rigor and clarity to complex or ambiguous problems and you follow through from framing to recommendation to action.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 48 years of experience in product strategy product analytics management consulting investment analysis or equivalent

• Strong analytical and opportunity sizing skills (Excel Sheets) with the ability to self-serve in data tools (SQL Looker or similar)

• Experience working closely with product teams and influencing through data and insight

• Track record of completing work not just recommending it with a bias toward speed and action

• Clear confident communicator who can tailor a message for engineers executives and everyone in between

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with consumer social platforms creator ecosystems or mobile product development

• Experience supporting quarterly or annual planning processes including resourcing or portfolio analysis

• Operational instincts: ability to track details and drive projects forward without losing the big picture

• Comfort working in lean fast-moving environments where structure is built not inherited

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Default Together Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster reinforce our values and serve our community customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this we practice a default together approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4 days per week.

At Snap we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race religious creed color national origin ancestry physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information marital status sex gender gender identity gender expression pregnancy childbirth and breastfeeding age sexual orientation military or veteran status or any other protected classification in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. EOE including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring where applicable).

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community so weve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave comprehensive medical coverage emotional and mental health support programs and compensation packages that let you share in Snaps long-term success!

Compensation

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