Senior Specialist, Product Strategy & Operations
About the role
The Senior Specialist, Product Strategy & Operations will join the lean, high-agency Product Strategy, Ops & GTM team at Snap Inc. This role is crucial for bringing structure and momentum to how Snapchat plans, executes, and launches products.
Responsibilities
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
Qualifications
4–8 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
A 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