Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Global Account Manager role sits at the intersection of enterprise SaaS and regulated industry buying, where long sales cycles, complex stakeholders, and platform-level adoption are the norm. Snowflake’s positioning in cloud data and AI-related workloads makes the Financial Services segment particularly consequential, since banks and insurers often set high bars for security, governance, and architectural rigor. That combination tends to reward account leaders who can translate technical capability into board-level outcomes.
For a SaaS career, the work builds durable strengths in consultative, multi-threaded selling: shaping account plans, partnering with marketing and services ecosystems, and navigating procurement and risk functions without losing momentum. Managing seven-figure, multi-year agreements also develops practical fluency in value articulation, ROI framing, and deal mechanics that transfer across enterprise SaaS categories, especially platform and infrastructure-oriented products.
This role is best suited to experienced sellers who prefer ownership of a small set of strategic accounts over high-volume transactional motion. It will fit professionals who are comfortable coordinating cross-functional resources, running executive conversations, and staying methodical through long evaluation cycles. An interest in cloud and data platforms, and in the operating realities of Financial Services customers, will align well with the day-to-day focus.
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.
Snowflake is growing fast and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We’re passionate about our people, our customers, our values and our culture! We’re also looking for people with a growth mindset and the pragmatic insight to solve for today while building for the future. And as a Snowflake employee, you will be accountable for supporting and enabling diversity and belonging.
This role is a unique opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way to high visibility, high impact projects at a very exciting time for the company. Snowflake is an innovative, high-growth, customer-focused company in a large and growing market. If you are an energetic, self-managed professional with experience leading complex sales processes and possess excellent presentation and listening skills, organization and contact management capabilities, we’d love to hear from you.
AS A GLOBAL ACCOUNT MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
Achieve sales quotas for allocated accounts on a quarterly and annual basis by developing a sales strategy in the allocated territory.
Develop strategic, account based marketing plans with the marketing team to drive revenue growth.
Work closely with our GSI and SI partner community.
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.
Arrange and conduct initial Executive and CxO discussions and positioning meetings.
Sales process management and opportunity closure.
Ongoing account management to ensure customer satisfaction and drive additional revenue streams.
REQUIREMENTS:
10-15+ years of field sales experience preferred with an emphasis on data or cloud related technology.
Extensive experience focussed on strategic and complex customers, working with cross functional account teams internally.
Experience leading sales account teams that are aligned to customer(s) at a regional level.
Experience closing seven figure, multi year deals and formulating strategic account plans.
Experience determining customer requirements, presenting appropriate solutions and articulating business value / ROI.
Demonstrated success with transformational and consultative selling, strategy and running sophisticated negotiations.
Executive level relationship management experience and understanding of business drivers for C-level stakeholders.
Alignment with critical departments internally i.e. partner sales, marketing, value engineering, legal etc.
Extensive experience operating with large Financial Services / Banking customers
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
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
