Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Commercial Account Executive roles remain a core lever in SaaS because they translate product capability into recurring revenue, especially where cloud and data platforms are involved. This listing stands out as a commercial-market remit in Bengaluru with remote flexibility, suggesting a territory where deal cycles can span both mid-market scale and enterprise-style stakeholders. The emphasis on solution selling and executive conversations signals a role anchored in business outcomes rather than transactional volume.
For a SaaS sales career, the work described builds durable skills around managing a full-cycle process, shaping territory strategy, and connecting customer roadmaps to platform adoption. Experience navigating onboarding handoffs and ongoing account management also maps closely to how SaaS companies protect and expand ARR over time. Exposure to cross-functional planning with marketing further reflects the revenue team operating model common in modern SaaS.
This role best fits a seller who prefers structured pipeline ownership, disciplined prospecting, and consultative discovery. It will suit someone comfortable negotiating agreements, running senior-level meetings, and balancing new logo pursuit with post-sale continuity. Professionals looking to deepen expertise in cloud-oriented, value-based selling will find the scope aligned with long-term SaaS progression.
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 Commercial Account Executive is responsible for building Commercial-level client relationships within the Bangalore market. 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 Commercial AE must have the confidence and ability to negotiate and close agreements with clients and support new customers through our onboarding 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, organisation and contact management capabilities, we'd love to hear from you.
AS A COMMERCIAL ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE, YOU WILL:
Achieve sales quotas for allocated accounts 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 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
Be familiar with a solution-based approach to selling, have experience managing a complex sales process and possess excellent presentation and listening skills, organisation and contact management capabilities
WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WITH:
5+ years of full-cycle sales experience selling software or cloud-based applications to the mid and large markets
Emphasis on cloud, databases, business intelligence software, data warehousing, or SaaS is desired
Proven track record of working with enterprise customers across industries
Experience hitting a quota of $500K+ 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
A pro-active, independent thinker with high energy and positive attitude
Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and relationship management skills
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth 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?
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