Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
EMEA Manufacturing/Auto Field CTO
Are you passionate about taking new ideas and innovation to market? Have you successfully applied technology to solve business problems in Manufacturing and in the Automotive industry in particular? Are you coming from the Auto industry? If so, we have a strategic opportunity to use your expertise across Data, Cloud and AI to drive transformational changes in a highly visible role collaborating with internal and external leadership.
Snowflake is actively seeking a Technical Industry Specialist for Manufacturing with a focus on Automotive to join our EMEA Field CTO Organization. In this role, you will work side-by-side with Snowflake’s strategic Automotive customers and prospects in Europe. You will partner with the sales, marketing, product management and channel partner teams to create compelling solution offerings for customers. You will also drive co-innovation programs with customers via Snowflake’s technology and solutions sharing best practices, providing guidance around design patterns and architecture.
You will act as a visionary and an innovative industry expert and have the opportunity to apply your successful track record of architecting, building, and taking solutions to market that are applicable to the automotive industry.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:
Have direct involvement with our most strategic EMEA Auto customers and partners, OEM's, Tier 1 Suppliers, building trusted relationships with technical stakeholders, participate in product and solution briefings and lead co-innovation projects
Be the voice of the customer identifying industry trends, functional requirements and technical gaps to partner with product management for prioritization
Design ideas and working pilots on how the Snowflake Platform can be embedded and used for these systems
Analyze the as-is architecture and design the to-be architecture. Help realize the right (pilot) solutions with Partners/SI's to demonstrate Snowflake's capabilities
Drive repeatability by creating Industry specific technical selling assets (reference architectures, use cases, demos, customer case studies and solutions)
Collaborate with our industry go-to-market team to prioritize industry-specific capabilities in future product roadmaps and drive Snowflake’s Auto product vision into the market
Collaborate with counterparts in Global and Regional System Integration partners to jointly define Snowflake centric offerings for the Auto industry
Identify, recruit and map potential ISV partners and marketplace providers to target reference architecture, data sets and use cases
Enable technical sales team and Auto communities of practice on industry trends, partner capabilities and solution offerings
Can speak to the competitive landscape
Contribute and participate in industry marketing activities such as webinars, conferences, blogs etc.
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
10+ years of architecture experience building, consulting to, or implementing technology for the Automotive industry
Are well-versed in the overall challenges impacting the Auto industry and application of use cases such as Integrating Data and Eliminate Silos Across Clouds, Leveraging a Scalable and Performant Platform for Connected Vehicle Data, driving New Revenue Opportunities by Monetizing Data and MaaS, Unlocking & Scale Advanced Analytics with AI/ML Capabilities
Deep understanding of PLM systems and software and bill of materials management
Understanding of Data Science & Machine Learning concepts and applications in the Auto industry
Familiarity with Product Transformation solutions like Siemens ADAS, CGI, C360, Reply - Toyota Motors Europe, Evolv
Familiarity with Manufacturing Transformation solutions like Inductive Automation, CirrusLink, Landing.AI, Siemens Industrial Edge, HighByte
Familiarity with Supply Chain Transformation solutions like Siemens Mendix, DXC, Exiger - Supply Chain Risk Management
Broad range of experience with technical and design direction including large-scale database and/or data warehouse technology, ETL, analytics and public cloud technologies
Understand the role Catena-X plays in this space
Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
Experience working with C-level executives and an ability to quickly establish credibility with senior leadership
Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred
The ability to travel to customer sites, industry events and other related events as required
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
