Product Manager, Spectacles Cloud Services

Product Manager, Spectacles Payments and Cloud 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

Prototype new concepts and capabilities, which will require a level of technical expertise and experience with software development environments

Set, test, and validate our performance expectations across the full stack

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

Scope projects in terms of engineering resources, and write out specs outlining how these software products will be built and how they would integrate with the existing/future hardware

Work with core engineering to identify the most efficient way to build products that scale

Write Lookr / SQL queries for data analysis and A/B testing

Potentially write some code to get foundational prototypes both on device and on server side

Work hand-in-hand with engineers to scope projects, identify problems, and efficiently develop solutions.

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

Bachelor of science degree in engineering or other technical discipline; i.e. Systems Engineering, Computer Science

Experience in cloud based platform services

Experience in platform security and approaches to privacy

Experience in emerging cloud AI capabilities

Knowledge of engineering first…