Product Manager, Spectacles Platform Services

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’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Spectacles is home to our hardware products with a world-class research & development team. We are focused on pushing the boundaries of what a camera can be, specifically overlaying computing on the real world.

We are looking for an experienced software Product Manager to join our Spectacles team at Snap Inc!

What you’ll do:

• Leverage your product expertise to drive impact for multiple product areas, including a new payment platform and robust Lens distribution system to enable the Spectacles Lens Store
• Bring emerging cloud & cloud based AI capabilities to the Spectacles platform
• Deliver on a private and secure end to end platform including cloud, mobile, and on device components
• Use a strategic mindset to identify gaps and opportunities for the product and communicate those to leadership and your teams
• Manage ambiguity and turn high level direction into actionable plans with well-defined product milestones
• Work collaboratively and lead cross functional work streams
• Use an adaptable approach to problem solving that takes into account the variety of problems and challenges in a long product development cycle
• Use signals from your users, executives, peers, and teams to define clear and focused priorities for your teams to ensure optimal execution
• Act as a steward of the process of creating a product from the early seeds of an idea to designing, building, shipping, and maintaining a valuable product for your users rather than a gatekeeper with a focus on creating a highly collaborative environment
• Constantly edit and communicate the narrative driving the product purpose, scope, and priorities to ensure it’s cohesive and consistent enough to achieve focus, and clarity
  
  

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Ability to define and lead cross-functional projects to completion with minimal guidance
• Ability to communicate to others clearly and effectively
• Ability to execute against defined objectives both tactically and strategically
• A team player who can collaborate with engineers, designers, and other cross-functional teams
• Experience creating integrated hardware/software products or platform/ecosystem products
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience in a technical speciality
• 4 years of product management and/or related industry experience at a consumer electronics or technology company
• Experience in payments systems and/or content distribution systems
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 years of full product lifecycle experience delivering an AR/VR/XR device or related product
• Experience in cloud based platform services
• Experience in platform security and approaches to privacy
• Experience in emerging cloud AI capabilities
  
  

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and provide us some information.

"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 we’ve 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 Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC):

The base salary range for this position is $173,000-$259,000 annually.

Zone B:

The base salary range for this position is $164,000-$246,000 annually.

Zone C:

The base salary range for this position is $147,000-$220,000 annually.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.