Account Executive, Commercial Acquisition

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · GA-Atlanta, 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 requires building customer relationships, understanding their business and technical problems, and guiding them through digital transformation and cloud adoption. While the company emphasizes an 'agentic enterprise' and AI as a collaborator, the core function of this role is sales, not direct AI/ML development or research.

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

  • 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.
  • 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

  • BA/BS preferred.

What the JD emphasized

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