Account Executive, Commercial Acquisition

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · CO-Denver, United States · Sales

This role is for a Commercial Account Executive at Snowflake, focusing on selling Snowflake's solutions to digital native and startup prospects. The role emphasizes building customer relationships, understanding customer needs, and demonstrating how Snowflake's platform can solve business and technical problems, particularly in the context of the 'agentic enterprise' and cloud adoption. While the company is focused on AI, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building or shipping AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Sell to 250+ 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
  • Confidence and ability to negotiate and close agreements
  • Support new customers through our on-boarding process
  • 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
  • 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

  • data, data analytics, database (SQL & NoSQL), ETL, or business intelligence

What the JD emphasized

  • 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.