Account Executive, Commercial Acquisition

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

Snowflake is seeking a Commercial Account Executive to join their sales team. The role focuses on selling Snowflake's solutions to digital native and startup prospects, building customer relationships, and driving new business opportunities. The ideal candidate will have experience in field sales, particularly with data, data analytics, database, ETL, or business intelligence, and a proven ability to manage and close client relationships.

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

  • Sales experience
  • Customer relationship building
  • Negotiation
  • Closing agreements
  • On-boarding support
  • Cloud application/computing space understanding
  • Data warehouse or analytic technologies familiarity
  • Solution-based selling
  • Complex sales process management
  • Presentation skills
  • Listening skills
  • Organization
  • Contact management
  • Achieving mission
  • Team collaboration
  • Data, data analytics, database (SQL & NoSQL), ETL, or business intelligence experience
  • Independent client relationship management
  • Pipeline development
  • Quota achievement
  • Customer requirements determination
  • Solution presentation
  • Proactive thinking
  • Independent thinking
  • High energy
  • Positive attitude
  • Verbal communication
  • Written communication
  • Relationship management skills
  • Thriving in fast-paced startup environment

Nice to have

  • 2+ years of field sales experience

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native thinkers
  • treating AI as a high-trust collaborator
  • customer-obsessed
  • data is accessible, usable and valuable to everyone
  • Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and positive attitude
  • driven to exceed performance objectives
  • understanding of the Cloud application/computing space
  • familiarity with data warehouse or analytic technologies
  • experience managing a complex sales process
  • superb organization and contact management capabilities
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.