Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Account Executive role sits at the intersection of enterprise cloud adoption and consultative selling, where SaaS vendors win by tying product capability to measurable business outcomes. Managing a defined book of commercial accounts and navigating multi-stakeholder buying groups reflects how modern SaaS revenue is built in data and infrastructure categories, with technical credibility and value articulation carrying as much weight as relationship depth.
For a SaaS sales career, the role offers repeated exposure to full-cycle deal mechanics that translate across platforms: discovery, solution positioning, demos, proofs of concept, negotiation, and post-sale guidance that drives usage. The emphasis on understanding complementary and competitive technologies also builds market literacy that becomes increasingly important as portfolios sprawl and integrations influence purchase decisions.
This position tends to fit professionals who like structured account ownership and consistent customer contact, while staying hands-on with product narratives and technical workflows. It will suit someone comfortable operating with autonomy, tracking activity and pipeline rigorously, and learning quickly as the product and ecosystem evolve. Candidates aiming to build durable SaaS selling skills in complex environments should find the scope aligned with that trajectory.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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.
YOU MAY BE A GOOD FIT FOR THE TEAM IF YOU:
Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and positive attitude with a passion for building customer relationships and expanding business opportunities. The Account Executive must have the confidence and ability to negotiate and close agreements with Clients.
You are driven to exceed performance objectives.
Self-starter comfortable with some ambiguity, demonstrating a willingness to learn/ramp quickly
You are excited about being positioned right in the middle of the exploding cloud based economy and to develop and maintain a highly desired knowledge of Snowflake’s solutions.
You are familiar with a solution-based approach to selling, have experience managing a complex sales process and possess excellent presentation and listening skills.
You have superb organization and contact management capabilities.
You are driven to achieve your mission and you love bringing the team together to achieve results together.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:
Manage the relationship of 50-70 clients within a specific industry.
Build trusted relationships with Snowflake internal resources, external partners, and client account teams to qualify deals, identify business value, and provide technical guidance in order to set proper expectations to ensure customer satisfaction
Align Snowflake’s value to the customers’ business and technical problems
Drive revenue and increase market share in defined set of accounts
Immerse yourself in the ever-evolving technology and landscape while maintaining a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them.
Work hands-on with customers to deliver standard, customized and/or strategic solution demonstrations, presentations, and best practices that showcase functional capabilities, competitive advantages, and business benefits of the Snowflake solutions throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation.
Guides customers in digital transformation and cloud adoption, understanding where Snowflake integrates with holistic architecture and strategy.
Provide ongoing, post-sales, technical guidance to the customer’s technical team to drive customer utilization of Snowflake and digital transformation success
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
1+ years of sales experience full cycle sales or equivalent business to business sales experience.
Proven ability to independently manage and develop client relationships.
Ability to drive consistent activity, pipeline development and quota achievement.
Experience determining customer requirements and presenting appropriate solutions.
Proactive, independent thinking and a high energy/positive attitude.
Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and relationship management skills.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.
BA/BS preferred.
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
