Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Account Executive role sits in a core SaaS motion: commercial acquisition for a cloud data platform. In the current SaaS ecosystem, data infrastructure vendors often win through multi stakeholder selling where technical evaluation and business value need to be aligned early. The remit points to working with digital native and startup prospects, a segment where buying cycles can be consultative but still outcome driven, and where positioning against adjacent platforms is part of the day to day.
For a SaaS sales career, the role offers durable exposure to enterprise grade go to market fundamentals: building pipeline, running a structured sales process, and translating a technical product into clear customer impact. Experience gained in discovery, solution based negotiation, and coordinating internal specialists tends to transfer well across B2B SaaS categories, particularly those with product complexity and proof of value steps such as demos or proofs of concept.
This is best suited to someone who prefers owning a territory and operating with a high degree of independence while staying tightly connected to internal resources. It will fit a seller who enjoys learning technical domains, is comfortable with measurable performance targets, and wants their craft shaped by cloud buying patterns rather than transactional volume selling.
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.
Account Executive, Commercial Acquisition
Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
Snowflake’s Commercial sales organization continues to grow and we are actively seeking a Commercial Account Executive to join the team. 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.
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 closing new business opportunities. The Account Executive must have the confidence and ability to negotiate and close agreements with Clients and support new customers through our on-boarding process.
You are driven to exceed performance objectives.
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 have an understanding of the Cloud application/computing space along with familiarity with data warehouse or analytic technologies.
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:
Sell to 250+ digital native and startup prospects in your region
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.
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
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
2+ years of field sales experience preferred with an emphasis on data, data analytics, database (SQL & NoSQL), ETL, or business intelligence.
Sales experience with emphasis on data, data analytics, database (SQL & NoSQL), ETL, or business intelligence preferred.
Proven ability to independently manage, develop, and close new client relationships.
Proven success in driving 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.
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
