Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Majors Account Executive role sits at the intersection of enterprise SaaS and regulated industry buying cycles, with a clear focus on Financial Services. Snowflake’s positioning in data, analytics, and cloud adoption makes the role relevant to how modern SaaS platforms land and expand within complex technical environments, where value is proven through architecture, security expectations, and measurable business outcomes.
For a SaaS sales career, the long-term value comes from operating across the full enterprise motion: discovery that translates technical detail into executive relevance, solution storytelling through demos and proofs of concept, and coordination with implementation teams to set durable customer expectations. The remit also signals meaningful exposure to partnering with product and engineering feedback loops, a common lever in platform SaaS where field learning influences roadmap and positioning.
This role is best suited to a senior individual contributor who prefers consultative selling and can sustain multi-stakeholder engagement from practitioners to C-level leaders. It will likely appeal to someone comfortable building internal alignment, working with complementary technologies in a broader ecosystem, and maintaining depth in a specific vertical while still navigating a competitive cloud landscape.
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.
An Account Executive on our Majors team is one of Snowflake's most senior individual contributor sales roles. Our Account Executives are customer obsessed and we believe in the value we can add and stay honest about it. We love to learn, are open to giving and receiving feedback and are passionate about making our clients successful. Our team works to ensure data is accessible, usable and valuable to everyone.
This role will be supporting our Financial Service division.
YOU MAY BE A GOOD FIT FOR THE TEAM IF YOU:
Act customer first and obsessed with helping customers drive digital transformation.
Think big and demonstrate excellence in the application of technology to solve all kinds of problems.
Possess a “Get it done” and “Own it” philosophy to drive customer success.
Knowledge and experience within the data science, analytics, or big data markets.
Feel comfortable talking with all levels of customer teams from individual contributors to C-level executives using language that appropriately translates complex technical and business information.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:
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
Leverage knowledge of a domain or industry to align Snowflake’s value to the customers’ business and technical problems
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.
Conduct discovery meetings to collect, analyze, clarify, and document business requirements during the sales cycle to support the implementation team and produce a detailed solution proposal.
Work hands-on with prospects and customers to deliver standard, customized and/or strategic solution demonstrations, white boarding, 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
Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing.
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
10+ years of relevant experience in an enterprise sales role for a SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS company
Experience working with HCLS customers highly preferred
Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences
Exceptional problem solving, organizational, decision making and presentation skills
Ability to work in an independent, collaborative and fast paced environment
Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math or equivalent experience preferred
Ability to travel regionally as needed
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
