Account Executive, Media & Entertainment

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · NY-New York City, United States · Remote · Sales

This role is for an Account Executive in the Media & Entertainment sector, focusing on selling Snowflake's data cloud solutions. While the company emphasizes an 'agentic enterprise' and encourages employees to treat AI as a collaborator, the core function of this role is sales, not building or directly deploying AI/ML models. The role involves understanding customer needs, demonstrating product value, and driving digital transformation using Snowflake's platform, which may include AI-powered features.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. Leverage knowledge of a domain or industry to align Snowflake’s value to the customers’ business and technical problems
  3. 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.
  4. Conduct discovery meetings to collect, analyze, clarify, and document business requirements during the sales cycle to support the implementation team and produce a detailed solution proposal.
  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

  • enterprise sales experience
  • SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS sales
  • customer relationship building
  • technical guidance
  • domain/industry knowledge
  • understanding of competitive technologies
  • discovery meetings
  • business requirements analysis
  • solution proposal development
  • solution demonstrations
  • white boarding
  • presentations
  • digital transformation guidance
  • cloud adoption guidance
  • post-sales technical guidance
  • collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing
  • presenting to technical and executive audiences
  • problem solving
  • organizational skills
  • decision making
  • independent work
  • collaborative work
  • fast-paced environment

Nice to have

  • Experience working with Entertainment customers
  • Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math or equivalent experience

What the JD emphasized

  • customer first
  • customer obsessed
  • drive digital transformation
  • Knowledge and experience within the data science, analytics, or big data markets
  • 10+ years of relevant experience in an enterprise sales role for a SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS company
  • Experience working with Entertainment customers highly preferred