Data infrastructure
10 Snowflake product leaders
These ten product leaders have held director, head of product, vice president or senior vice president roles in product at Snowflake, eight of them still there and two since moved on. A reader can learn how Snowflake product teams approach areas such as data ingestion, AI, developer apps, observability and cloud infrastructure.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adam Gao
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Product Management AI & Data Platform · Snowflake
Former Senior Director, Product Management AI & Data Platform at Snowflake (2021–2024), after serving there as Director, Product Management Data Platform (2017–2021), where the profile says Adam Gao led the data platform strategy. Prior roles include Group Product Manager, Cloud Data Services at Oracle (2015–2017).
Artin Avanes
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Product Management · Snowflake
Senior Director of Product Management at Snowflake since August 2024, after serving there as Director of Product Management (2020–2024) and on the Founding PM team (2015–2020). Prior roles include Senior Program Manager - Azure & SQL Server at Microsoft (2014–2015) and Program Manager - SQL Server DW appliance at Microsoft (2011–2015).
Bala Kasiviswanathan
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Products · Snowflake
Vice President of Products at Snowflake since January 2026, a role the profile lists at vice president level in the product department. Prior roles include Chief Product & Customer Experience Officer at Simpplr (2023–2025) and Chief Product Officer at X, The Moonshot Factory (2021–2023).
Carl Perry
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Product Management · Snowflake
Senior Director of Product Management at Snowflake since October 2020, a role the profile lists at director level in the product department. Prior roles include General Manager at Square (2015–2020), Group Product Manager at Microsoft (2013–2015) and Software Development Manager at Amazon (2009–2013).
Christian Kleinerman
LinkedInExperience: SVP of Product · Snowflake
SVP of Product at Snowflake since January 2020, a role the profile lists in the product department at senior level, after serving as VP of Product at Snowflake (2018–2020), listed at president/vice president level. The listing shows only these two Snowflake product roles.
Gabriel Tavridis
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, Observability · Snowflake
Head of Product, Observability at Snowflake since February 2026, a role the profile lists at head level in the product department, after a short stint as SVP Product at Observe, Inc. (2026). Prior roles include SVP Product at Imply (2024–2025), VP Product at Imply (2022–2024) and Sr Director of Product at Imply (2021–2022).
James Malone
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · Snowflake
Former Director of Product Management at Snowflake (2021–2025), described in the profile as director and lead for product management for all things data engineering and storage. Director of Product Management at Databricks since February 2025, and previously Group Product Manager at Google (2015–2021).
Kunal Kapoor
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · Snowflake
Director of Product Management at Snowflake since October 2020, focusing on infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP; the profile lists observability, traffic and networking, and global regulated expansion efforts as key areas. Prior roles include Director of Product Management at Pure Storage (2017–2020) and Product Management Lead at Riverbed Technology (2015–2017).
Saptarshi Mukherjee
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Product Management · Snowflake
Senior Director of Product Management at Snowflake since August 2025, after serving there as Director of Product Management (2020–2025). The profile says Saptarshi Mukherjee leads Snowflake's platform charter for data ingestion, streaming and enterprise connectivity. Prior roles include Global Head of Products & Solutions GTM Strategy Analytics, Databases, Apps Google Cloud at Google (2017–2020).
Unmesh Jagtap
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management, Developers & Apps · Snowflake
Director of Product Management, Developers & Apps at Snowflake since August 2024, after serving there as Principal Product Manager (2021–2024). The profile says Unmesh Jagtap has led 0→1 initiatives at Snowflake including Snowflake Native Apps and Snowflake Postgres, and was responsible for M&A strategy and post-acquisition integration for Snowflake Postgres. Prior roles include Director Of Engineering at Twitter (2019–2021).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Snowflake decide which new workloads to support on its platform, and how are those bets prioritized?
- 02How do your product teams gather input from enterprise customers and turn it into roadmap decisions?
- 03What did you learn from launching or integrating a new product that other product teams should know?
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