Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake sits in the data and cloud infrastructure layer of SaaS, where platform choices often shape an enterprise’s analytics, AI, and application strategy for years. An acquisition-focused Account Executive in this context is closely tied to how modern SaaS stacks are bought, with senior stakeholders evaluating security, governance, and long-term architecture alongside commercial terms.
For a SaaS sales career, the role offers repeated exposure to complex, multi-threaded deal cycles and the craft of translating technical capabilities into business outcomes. It builds durable skills in territory planning, pipeline creation, and executive-level discovery, all of which transfer well across enterprise SaaS categories where buying committees and procurement rigor are the norm. Experience with structured qualification methods and onboarding handoffs also maps directly to predictable revenue practices used across mature SaaS organizations.
This position tends to suit a seller who prefers autonomy, disciplined process, and high-quality customer conversations over transactional volume. It aligns with professionals who want to deepen enterprise new-business expertise, are comfortable navigating CxO discussions, and enjoy partnering across functions such as marketing and onboarding to move opportunities from first meeting to signed agreement.
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.
The Account Executive is responsible for driving new client acquisition within enterprise businesses. Individuals who excel at this job have the ability to prospect, develop, and close business within a timely manner while focusing on the clients’ requirements. The Enterprise AE's must have the confidence and ability to negotiate and close agreements with clients and support new customers through our on-boarding process.
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 managing a complex sales process and possess excellent presentation and listening skills, organization and contact management capabilities, we’d love to hear from you.
AS AN ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
Achieve sales quotas 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.
Develop marketing plans with the marketing team to drive revenue growth.
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
Arrange and conduct initial Executive and CxO discussions and positioning meetings.
Sales process management and opportunity closure.
Be familiar 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.
OUR IDEAL ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE WILL HAVE:
8+ years of field sales experience preferred with an emphasis on data or cloud related technology.
5+ year’s industry focused experience generating new business
Proven ability to independently manage, develop, and close new client relationships.
Experience hitting quota of $1M+ of ARR per year.
A track record of success in driving consistent activity, pipeline development and quota achievement.
Experience determining customer requirements and presenting appropriate solutions.
Pro-active, independent thinker with high energy and a positive attitude.
Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and relationship management skills.
Ability to thrive in fast-paced startup environment.
Executive level relationship management.
Ability to understand the "bigger picture" and the business drivers around IT.
Experience implementing MEDDPICC.
Professionally proficient in Norwegian
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
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
