Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake sits in the cloud data platform layer of the SaaS ecosystem, where commercial sales is closely tied to technical credibility and customer outcomes. A Commercial Account Executive role here is notable because it operates at the intersection of enterprise data strategy, cloud adoption, and an increasingly AI-influenced tooling landscape, all within a mature SaaS vendor that sells into complex stakeholder groups.
For a SaaS sales career, this kind of seat builds durable skills around running multi-step, solution-oriented cycles rather than transactional selling. Managing a defined book of accounts while navigating demos, proofs of concept, and implementation considerations helps develop fluency in how SaaS value is proven, not just promised. Experience aligning a platform’s capabilities to business and technical problems also transfers well across data infrastructure, analytics, and adjacent cloud software categories.
This role tends to suit professionals who enjoy structured account management alongside new opportunity creation, and who are comfortable collaborating across internal specialists and customer technical teams. It fits someone earlier in their AE path who wants repeated reps of full-cycle execution, as well as sellers who prefer consultative discovery and clear process ownership over purely inbound deal flow.
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.
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.
The application window is expected to be open until May 13, 2026. This opportunity will remain posted based on business needs, which may be before or after the specified date.
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
