Enterprise Expansion Account Executive

Snowflake
Amsterdam
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward enterprise sales professionals comfortable with building client relationships and managing complex sales processes.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in enterprise account management and a history of quota achievement in high-growth environments
    — “proven ability to independently manage, develop, and close new client relationships
  • Individuals who can act as strategic advisors, aligning Snowflake solutions with enterprise IT roadmaps
    — “understanding their existing and future IT roadmap to drive the Snowflake solution within the marketplace
  • Professionals who thrive in dynamic environments and are adept at rapid experimentation and adaptation
    — “move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results

Things to consider

  • This role requires fluency in Dutch, which may be a non-trivial requirement for non-native speakers
    — “Professional proficiency in Dutch
  • The position is likely to involve significant travel and interaction with leadership teams, given the focus on executive-level meetings
    — “Arrange and conduct Executive and CxO discussions and positioning meetings

How to stand out

  • Highlight your success in managing complex sales processes and hitting high ARR targets in your resume and interviews
    — “Experience hitting quota of $1M+ of ARR per year
  • Demonstrate your ability to act as a trusted advisor by showcasing IT roadmap alignment and solution selling in prior roles
    — “Be the trusted advisor to the customer by understanding their existing and future IT roadmap to drive the Snowflake solution within the marketplace
  • Emphasize your experience in expanding business within existing enterprise accounts, not just acquiring new ones
    — “2+ year’s experience expanding and generating new business within existing Enterprise accounts
  • Showcase your ability to develop and execute marketing plans that drive revenue growth
    — “Develop marketing plans with the marketing team to drive revenue growth
  • Demonstrate your proactive and independent thinking by providing examples of self-directed sales initiatives
    — “Pro-active, independent thinker with high energy and a positive attitude
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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

What success looks like

  • sales quotas
  • customer satisfaction
Typical background
field sales experienceenterprise sales

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales StrategyCustomer Relationship ManagementComplex Sales Process

Preferred

Ai-native ThinkingSolution-based Selling

Stack & domain

SalesCloud TechnologyDataComplex Sales ProcessPresentationListeningOrganizationContact ManagementAi-native ThinkingTeamworkProblem-solvingCommunicationAdaptabilityLeadershipEnterprise SalesCloud ComputingData Management

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 Expansion Account Executive is responsible for building client relationships within Enterprise businesses. Individuals who excel at this job have the ability to prospect, develop, and close business within a timely manner while focusing on the clients’ requirements. The Enterprise AE's must have the confidence and ability to negotiate and close agreements with clients and support new customers through our on-boarding process.

This role is a unique opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way to high visibility, high impact projects at a very exciting time for the company. Snowflake is an innovative, high-growth, customer-focused company in a large and growing market. If you are an energetic, self-managed professional with experience managing a complex sales process and possess excellent presentation and listening skills, organization and contact management capabilities, we’d love to hear from you.

AS AN ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

  • Achieve sales quotas for allocated customers 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.
  • Develop marketing plans with the marketing team to drive revenue growth.
  • 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.
  • Arrange and conduct Executive and CxO discussions and positioning meetings.
  • Sales process management and opportunity closure.
  • Ongoing account management to ensure customer satisfaction and drive additional revenue streams.
  • Be familiar 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.

OUR IDEAL ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE WILL HAVE:

  • 7+ years of field sales experience preferred with an emphasis on data or cloud related technology.
  • 2+ year’s experience expanding and generating new business within existing Enterprise accounts.
  • Proven ability to independently manage, develop, and close new client relationships.
  • Experience hitting quota of $1M+ of ARR per year.
  • A track record of success in driving consistent activity, pipeline development and quota achievement.
  • Experience determining customer requirements and presenting appropriate solutions.
  • Pro-active, independent thinker with high energy and a positive attitude.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and relationship management skills.
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced startup environment.
  • Executive level relationship management.
  • Ability to understand the "bigger picture" and the business drivers around IT.
  • Professional proficiency in Dutch

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

  • Experience implementing MEDDPICC.
  • Experience selling software or cloud based applications is desired.

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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