Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior District Manager, Enterprise Acquisition role sits squarely in the enterprise SaaS revenue engine, where repeatable processes and technical credibility determine whether large accounts convert. The listing signals a product-led cloud platform with complex evaluations and multi-stakeholder buying committees, making sales leadership less about volume and more about orchestration across solutioning, procurement, and executive alignment.
For a SaaS career, the durable value here is learning how enterprise acquisition scales when the product is sophisticated and the sales cycle is long. Managing managers and coaching AEs on forecast discipline, territory design, and negotiation mechanics builds a toolkit that transfers across categories like data infrastructure, analytics, and vertical SaaS. The emphasis on guiding technical evaluations also strengthens the ability to translate platform capabilities into business cases, a core skill in modern SaaS go-to-market.
This role best fits a seasoned sales leader who prefers structured coaching, operating rhythms, and measurable execution over ad hoc heroics. It will appeal to professionals who enjoy developing other leaders, partnering tightly with sales engineering and internal stakeholders, and staying close enough to the field to improve deal strategy while maintaining accountability to senior leadership outcomes.
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
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.
Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
Snowflake is experiencing rapid growth and we are expanding our team to support and accelerate this growth. We are deeply committed to our employees, customers, values, and culture. We are looking for individuals who have a growth mindset and the practical insight to address current challenges while also laying the foundation for future success. As a member of the Snowflake team, you will be responsible for promoting and fostering diversity and inclusivity.
We are in search of an Enterprise Acquisition Sales Manager who embodies Snowflake’s values and has a proven track record of creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that brings people and ideas together. This individual should possess strong communication skills, be open to giving and receiving constructive feedback, be adept at recognizing and celebrating the achievements of others, and have a genuine passion for our technology, as well as a commitment to continuous learning and teaching.
YOU MAY BE A GOOD FIT FOR THE TEAM IF YOU HAVE:
An understanding of Snowflake's product in order to be able to provide guidance to navigate complex technical evaluations
Drive to enable, coach, develop and motivate a robust Enterprise sales team
Developed territories by planning strategically and effectively
2+ years guiding Account Executives through complex legal and commercial negotiations
A customer first mindset to ensure success
Consistently executed what is forecasted to senior management
Understand how to sell business value, using a repeatable process
Coach reps on how to create urgency and deal control
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:
Recruit and build successful sales professionals into high-performing revenue drivers for Snowflake
Build cross-functional relationships with internal and external support teams & technical partners
Influence go-to-market strategy for venture backed/high growth startups.
Develop a team culture around Snowflake Core Values
Sell an industry changing and market defining product
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
BA/BS required
10+ years selling Cloud Solutions, Infrastructure Software, Databases, Analytic Tools, or Applications Software
2+ years managing a team of sales teams
Sold to CEOs, CTOs, Heads of Product, Engineering, or Data Science
Ability to coach your team how to target and pursue an opportunity with our ideal customer profile within a complex sales cycle
Experience outperforming targets as an individual contributor in an outbound role
Ability to coach AEs how to navigate commercial and legal negotiations when working with procurement, legal, and business teams.
Ability to work with sales engineering managers and customers to inventory existing software state, define migration plans, and build business cases for migrations to drive new logo acquisition.
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
