Account Executive, Majors Acquisition

Snowflake
New York, US
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior sales professionals with a hunter mentality who thrive in dynamic environments and have expertise in data warehousing, BI, or AI/ML.

Best fit for

  • Enterprise sales veterans with a proven track record in high-value new business acquisition.
    — “10+ years sales experience with consistent success meeting or exceeding sales objectives
  • Technical solution sellers who can navigate complex enterprise sales cycles in data/AI domains.
    — “executing enterprise complex sales strategies and tactics within one of the following spaces Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Science and/or AI/ML
  • Autonomous closers who balance strategic prospecting with rapid execution.
    — “act with autonomy, take accountability and be open to new perspectives and ideas

Things to consider

  • Multi-million dollar annual revenue targets require proven enterprise deal experience.
    — “Experience hitting multi million $ revenue targets on an annual basis
  • Must maintain strict data security protocols as part of daily duties.
    — “Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties

How to stand out

  • Quantify your new logo acquisition impact in dollar terms.
    — “A track record in securing new logos
  • Showcase specific examples of expanding enterprise accounts through strategic planning.
    — “Land, adopt, expand, and deepen sales opportunities with accounts in your region
  • Highlight cross-functional collaboration with technical teams during complex sales.
    — “Work closely with cross functional teams including sales engineering, professional services, marketing, legal and finance
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • meeting sales quotas
  • securing new logos
  • closing business
Typical background
10+ years sales experienceenterprise software sales

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales ExperienceComplex Sales StrategiesTechnical Solutions SellingEnterprise Software Sales

Preferred

Ai/ml KnowledgeData Warehousing Experience

Stack & domain

Sales ExperienceEnterprise Complex Sales StrategiesTechnical SolutionsSoftware ProductsData WarehousingBusiness IntelligenceData ScienceAi/mlSolution-based ApproachPresentationListeningOrganizationContact ManagementCuriosityInnovationDynamic And Fast-moving EnvironmentsExperimental MindsetAutonomyAccountabilityOpennessNew PerspectivesIdeasTeamworkFeedbackInclusive Work EnvironmentReputation For Making Each Other BetterSalesEnterpriseCloud

About the role

As an Account Executive at Snowflake, you'll spend your days uncovering and pursuing new business opportunities, requiring a blend of strategic thinking and a 'hunter' mentality to excel in this high-impact role.

Original posting from Snowflake via Ashby

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.

Our Majors sales team is expanding and we are seeking a qualified Account Executive with expertise in the industry and a “hunter” mentality. In this role you will use your creative prospecting skills to strategically pursue net new business and customer acquisition.

Your role will encompass prospecting, developing, and closing business within a timely manner while focusing on the clients’ requirements.

This role is a unique opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way to high visibility, high impact projects. You will be successful in this role if you are able to act with autonomy, take accountability and be open to new perspectives and ideas. Our team carries a deep curiosity to learn and are always looking for innovative ways to meet and exceed our customers needs.

AS AN ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

  • Become an expert on Snowflake’s product and conduct discovery calls, customized demos, and presentations to prospective customers
  • Be the trusted advisor to the customer by understanding their existing and future IT roadmap to drive the Snowflake solution within the marketplace
  • Prospect qualification and the development of new sales opportunities and ongoing revenue streams
  • Land, adopt, expand, and deepen sales opportunities with accounts in your region
  • Achieve sales quotas for allocated accounts and/or territory on a quarterly and annual basis by developing a sales strategy in the allocated territory with a target prospect list, and a regional sales plan.
  • Work closely with cross functional teams including sales engineering, professional services, marketing, legal and finance.

ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:

  • 10+ years sales experience with consistent success meeting or exceeding sales objectives selling technical solutions and software products into the enterprise market.
  • A track record in securing new logos
  • Demonstrable experience executing enterprise complex sales strategies and tactics within one of the following spaces Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Science and/or AI/ML
  • A familiarity with solution-based approach to selling, have experience managing a complex sales process and possess excellent presentation and listening skills, organization and contact management capabilities.
  • The ability to build our product and company like it’s your own, specifically defining and executing sales plans to meet strategic & financial targets, leveraging industry, partner & Go-to-Market knowledge
  • This ability to provide open, honest and respectful feedback creating an inclusive work environment
  • A reputation for Making Each Other Better: Resulting in long standing relationships with internal cross functional partners and the ability to create an inclusive work environment
  • Proven ability to independently manage, develop, and close new client relationships.
  • Experience hitting multi million $ revenue targets on an annual basis.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com

Source: Snowflake careers (Ashby)

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