Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake is a scaled, enterprise-facing SaaS business where go to market decisions are tightly coupled to infrastructure realities such as data center footprint, capacity, and regional expansion. This role sits at that intersection, reflecting how modern cloud platforms compete through both commercial execution and operational planning. For SaaS professionals, it highlights a mature operating model where strategy is built from measurable levers, not intuition.
The long-term career value comes from learning how a large SaaS company translates market opportunity into resourcing, coverage, and performance management across geographies and segments. Work spanning capacity planning, funnel and conversion analysis, and investment prioritisation builds a toolkit that travels well across revenue operations, strategy, and business operations functions. The emphasis on narrative plus analysis also maps to how SaaS leaders make decisions in increasingly data-saturated environments.
This position suits someone who prefers cross-functional problem solving and is comfortable moving between quantitative work and stakeholder alignment. It is a strong match for operators who like turning ambiguous questions into structured plans, and who want proximity to GTM leadership without stepping into a quota-carrying role. Candidates interested in how enterprise SaaS scales globally will find the scope especially relevant.
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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.
Snowflake’s Sales Strategy & Business Operations team is seeking a Sr. Associate, GTM Business Operations to help define and drive the company’s go-to-market strategy and operating plan. Our goal is to expand Snowflake’s addressable market and improve market penetration through targeted investments.
In this individual contributor role you will support strategy and business planning across Snowflake’s go-to-market teams, including market expansion planning and data center strategy, GTM architecture, performance analysis and improvement across sales geographies and segments, …
Additionally, you will partner closely with our regional sales leaders, partners, marketing, service and operations teams to implement this strategy, working collaboratively to put in place new processes, systems and best practices to successfully execute on Snowflake’s vision.
What you bring: You love combining strategy with execution, and you roll up your sleeves to bring plans to life. You are a “full stack” player; comfortable in lead or support roles across a variety of projects and responsibilities. You have a passion for technology and the role it plays in market, industry and company change. As a builder at heart, you have an appreciation for the operational components needed in order to build a world-class software company.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:
Evaluate market expansion opportunities by determining which countries we sell in/to, and what channels and resources we make available
Partner with Sales and Product to develop our infrastructure/data center roadmap, plan capacity and manage performance.
Structure and perform regular sales capacity planning analysis across Snowflake’s geographies and sales segments to inform ongoing sales hiring decisions and resource allocation to maximize growth potential
Partner with GTM leadership to formulate and communicate overall go-to-market strategy, across sales channels, geographies and segments
Drive visible strategic projects partnering with leaders within Snowflake; sales performance analysis and improvement, customer funnel conversion analysis, cost of customer acquisition, go-to-market strategy for new products, services, geographies or verticals
Demonstrate the ability to create a narrative and supporting analysis to influence decisions and outcomes, not just report on analytics
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
3-5 years of professional experience with a core focus in GTM strategy, planning and operations; consulting background and/or high growth enterprise software is highly preferred
Proven analytical and quantitative skills with a data-driven approach to problem-solving
Advanced data analysis/manipulation tools (SQL and Excel)
Experience with business modeling; operational, financial and statistical analysis
Bachelor degree in business, statistics, economics or other quantitative disciplines
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.
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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
