Account Executive, Commercial Acquisition

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · MA-Boston, United States · Sales

This role is for an Account Executive at Snowflake, focusing on selling Snowflake's solutions to commercial clients. While the company emphasizes AI and an 'agentic enterprise' vision, the core responsibilities of this role are sales-focused, involving building customer relationships, closing new business, and understanding Snowflake's value proposition in the cloud and data analytics space. The role requires sales experience, particularly in data-related technologies, and the ability to manage a sales process and achieve performance objectives.

What you'd actually do

  1. Sell to 500+ digital native and startup prospects in your region
  2. 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
  3. Leverage knowledge of a domain or industry to align Snowflake’s value to the customers’ business and technical problems
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and positive attitude
  • Passion for building customer relationships and closing new business opportunities
  • Confidence and ability to negotiate and close agreements with Clients
  • Support new customers through our on-boarding process
  • Driven to exceed performance objectives
  • Understanding of the Cloud application/computing space
  • Familiarity with data warehouse or analytic technologies
  • Familiarity with a solution-based approach to selling
  • Experience managing a complex sales process
  • Excellent presentation and listening skills
  • Superb organization and contact management capabilities
  • Driven to achieve your mission
  • Love bringing the team together to achieve results together
  • 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

Nice to have

  • 2+ years of field sales experience
  • 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
  • BA/BS preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • Sell to 500+ digital native and startup prospects in your region
  • 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.