Commercial Account Executive - Expansion

Snowflake
Stockholm-MSO
On-site

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience managing and expanding existing SaaS accounts and can articulate technical value propositions to C-level executives.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with mid-level SaaS sales experience and a proven ability to expand existing customer relationships
    — “experience managing and expanding an existing customer book
  • Individuals who thrive in fast-moving environments and can build multi-threaded executive relationships
    — “build multi-threaded executive relationships
  • Professionals skilled in structured sales methodologies and driving value-based deals
    — “fluency in a structured sales methodology (MEDDPICC, MEDDICC, or equivalent)

Things to consider

  • This role requires a high level of self-direction in pipeline generation and territory planning
    — “build a data-driven territory plan using propensity scoring
  • Candidates must be prepared to engage in complex, multi-persona deal negotiations
    — “navigate complex, multi-persona deals — from technical champions to CFO-level economic buyers

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate your ability to identify and articulate value hypotheses tailored to specific accounts
    — “identify and articulate value hypotheses (Why Anything? Why Now? Why Snowflake?)
  • Highlight your experience with consumption-based or usage-based commercial models
    — “familiarity with consumption-based or usage-based commercial models
  • Showcase your use of AI/automation tools to enhance sales productivity and personalization
    — “demonstrated use of AI/automation tools to enhance productivity
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

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

What success looks like

  • own a defined patch of commercial accounts
  • build a data-driven territory plan
  • source, progress, and close expansion use cases
  • protect the install base against competitive threats
Typical background
3+ years in a quota-carrying SaaS sales roleexperience managing and expanding an existing customer book

Skills & requirements

Required

Territory StrategyPipeline GenerationAccount ExpansionDeal ExecutionConsumption HealthCustomer SuccessCompetitive Defence

Preferred

Proactive Competitive StrategiesTCO AnalysisServerless Economics

Stack & domain

Saas SalesMeddpicc MethodologyTCO Analysis

About the 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.

THE ROLE

You won't just carry a bag — you'll run a franchise. As a Commercial Expansion Account Executive at Snowflake, you own a portfolio of existing customers and are accountable for defending the base, driving healthy consumption growth, and expanding into new workloads and use cases. You'll partner with Solutions Engineers, Customer Success, and Services Delivery to turn customers into advocates and single-workload accounts into strategic platforms.

This is not a renewals desk. You'll prospect within your install base, identify whitespace, build multi-threaded executive relationships, and close net-new expansion business — all while ensuring your customers are consuming Snowflake efficiently and getting measurable business value.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Territory Strategy & Pipeline Generation

  • Own a defined patch of commercial accounts (<500 employees) and build a data-driven territory plan using propensity scoring, technographic signals, and consumption health indicators
  • Apply strategic tiering (20/80 rule) to focus time on high-potential "Sleeping Giants" — accounts with high whitespace relative to current spend
  • Consistently achieve 10+ external customer meetings per week through disciplined outreach rhythms
  • Map accounts to campaign plays (e.g., BI Consolidation, AI/ML expansion, Databricks defence) based on their tech stack and business signals

Account Expansion & Deal Execution

  • Source, progress, and close expansion use cases using MEDDPICC methodology
  • Identify and articulate value hypotheses (Why Anything? Why Now? Why Snowflake?) tailored to each account's business priorities
  • Navigate complex, multi-persona deals — from technical champions to CFO-level economic buyers
  • Negotiate renewals, multi-year commitments, and capacity deals anchored in business value, not discounts

Consumption Health & Customer Success

  • Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy consumption; proactively address inefficiencies before they become churn risk
  • Understand modern data architecture (transformation layers, BI performance, serverless economics) to advise customers on optimising their Snowflake deployment
  • Convert cost savings from efficiency improvements into budget for new workloads — turning defence into offence

Competitive Defence

  • Protect the install base against competitive threats (Databricks, AWS-native, Azure Synapse) using TCO analysis, architectural advantages, and "Serverless Tax" positioning
  • Build proactive competitive strategies rather than reactive objection handling

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Must-Have

  • 3+ years in a quota-carrying SaaS sales role with demonstrable pattern of achievement (top 20% attainment preferred)
  • Experience managing and expanding an existing customer book — not exclusively net-new acquisition
  • Ability to articulate technical value propositions to both technical practitioners and C-level executives
  • Proven prospecting discipline within an install base: pipeline self-sourced, not inherited
  • Familiarity with consumption-based or usage-based commercial models
  • Fluency in a structured sales methodology (MEDDPICC, MEDDICC, or equivalent)

Strongly Preferred

  • Experience selling data, analytics, AI/ML, or cloud infrastructure solutions
  • Understanding of modern data stack architecture (data warehousing, ELT, BI tooling, data engineering)
  • Demonstrated use of AI/automation tools to enhance productivity (meeting prep, follow-up, personalisation, research)
  • Track record navigating competitive displacement scenarios
  • Experience with multi-year deal structuring and commercial negotiation (including MSA-level discussions)

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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