Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Enterprise acquisition roles remain a core lever in SaaS because they translate product capability into durable revenue, especially when the platform is technical and high-consideration. This Account Executive position sits in that enterprise motion, where buying decisions tend to involve multiple stakeholders, longer evaluation cycles, and a strong emphasis on mapping a solution to an IT roadmap. The listing also signals a modern go to market environment that expects sellers to incorporate AI tooling into how work gets done.
For a SaaS sales career, this kind of remit builds fluency in complex deal orchestration rather than single-threaded transactional selling. It develops habits that travel well across SaaS categories: structured discovery, value articulation tied to outcomes, and territory planning that balances net new pursuit with expansion. Close partnership with sales engineering, services, marketing, legal, and finance is also a practical way to learn how enterprise SaaS revenue is operationalized end to end.
The role fits professionals who prefer autonomy and accountability, and who are comfortable running a full-cycle process from prospecting through close. It also suits sellers motivated by becoming a credible advisor to technical and business audiences, with an interest in iterative experimentation in their workflow.
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.
Our Enterprise sales team is expanding and we are seeking a qualified Account Executive with expertise in the industry. In this role you will use your creative prospecting skills to strategically pursue net new business and expand business for current customers.
Your role will encompass prospecting, developing, and closing business within a timely manner while focusing on the clients’ requirements.
This role is a unique opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way to high visibility, high impact projects. You will be successful in this role if you are able to act with autonomy, take accountability and be open to new perspectives and ideas. Our team carries a deep curiosity to learn and are always looking for innovative ways to meet and exceed our customers needs.
AS AN ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
Become an expert on Snowflake’s product and conduct discovery calls, customized demos, and presentations to prospective customers
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
Land, adopt, expand, and deepen sales opportunities with accounts in your region
Achieve sales quotas for allocated accounts and/or territory 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.
Work closely with cross functional teams including sales engineering, professional services, marketing, legal and finance.
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
6+ years sales experience with consistent success meeting or exceeding sales objectives selling technical solutions and software products into the enterprise market.
Demonstrable experience executing enterprise complex sales strategies and tactics within one of the following spaces Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Science and/or AI/ML
A familiarity 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.
The ability to build our product and company like it’s your own, specificallydefining and executing sales plans to meet strategic & financial targets, leveraging industry, partner & Go-to-Market knowledge
This ability to provide open, honest and respectful feedback creating an inclusive work environment
A reputation for Making Each Other Better: Resulting in long standing relationships with internal cross functional partners and the ability to create an inclusive work environment
Proven ability to independently manage, develop, and close new client relationships.
Experience hitting multi million $ revenue targets on an annual basis.
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
