Industry Architect – Retail & Consumer Goods

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. ABOUT THE ROLE As an Industry Architect for Retail & Consumer Goods, you sit at the intersection of industry strategy, data, AI, and modern enterprise architecture. You will help leading retailers, brands, marketplaces, grocers, restaurants, and consumer goods companies reimagine how they operate, decide, and engage on top of Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud. Your mission is to turn high-value retail and consumer goods challenges into scalable data and AI solutions: from merchandising, supply chain, and store operations to loyalty, retail media, marketing, customer care, finance, and product content. This role goes beyond commerce alone. You will help shape how customers use Snowflake to power analytics, applications, agentic workflows, and AI-driven decisioning across the full retail value chain. You will pair deep industry understanding with modern data and AI architecture, partnering with field teams, product, marketing, and customers to shape how Snowflake shows up in Retail & Consumer Goods. You will alsohelp convert emerging Snowflake capabilities into repeatable architectures, demos, assets, and points of view that scale globally. This includes learning and leveraging the broader Snowflake product horizon - especially Snowflake Horizon, Cortex, Snowflake Intelligence, semantic layers, multimodal capabilities, and application patterns - and translating them into retail-relevant solutions where trust, governance, discoverability, and interoperability are core to business value. Snowflake is actively seeking a Retail & Consumer Goods Industry Architect to join our Field CTO organization. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Lead strategic customer engagements Partner with CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, digital leaders, merchandising leaders, supply chain teams, marketing and loyalty leaders, store operations leaders, and data/AI teams on high-impact initiatives tied to business value. - Translate retail and CPG challenges into end-to-end architectures Turn real industry problems into clear solution patterns and roadmaps, including: - demand sensing and replenishment - inventory and fulfillment optimization - store and field operations - loyalty and customer intelligence - retail media and monetization - pricing, promotion, and assortment - customer care and service workflows - product, catalog, and content intelligence - revenue growth and commercial planning - Design agentic and AI-powered business workflows Help customers move beyond dashboards and isolated models toward named agents, copilots, and decision-support experiences embedded in real workflows across digital and physical channels. - Architect the “last mile” experience Design how business users actually experience Snowflake, including: - conversational and natural-language interfaces - embedded AI experiences in partner or customer-facing apps - governed analytics and semantic layers - multimodal workflows that combine structured and unstructured data - operational experiences for business, analyst, and technical personas - Learn and leverage Snowflake’s broader platform capabilities Continuously translate Snowflake Horizon, Cortex, Snowflake Intelligence, semantic layers, apps, clean rooms, marketplace, and interoperability capabilities into retail and CPG architectures. In this indus