Commercial Account Executive - General Business

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · Tokyo, Japan · Sales

Commercial Account Executive for General Business at Snowflake, focusing on selling Snowflake's data platform and solutions to enterprise clients. The role involves understanding customer IT roadmaps, acting as a trusted advisor, developing new business, managing existing accounts, and collaborating with internal and partner teams to achieve sales targets. The ideal candidate has SaaS sales experience, strong relationship-building and communication skills, and a passion for data technology and AI trends.

What you'd actually do

  1. Become an expert in Snowflake products, delivering discovery calls, customized demos, and prospect presentations.
  2. Act as a trusted advisor by understanding customers' existing and future IT roadmaps, driving Snowflake solutions within the market.
  3. Prospect, develop, and close new customer relationships, as well as continue to develop existing customer relationships.
  4. Drive sales opportunities and adoption, expansion, and deepening within assigned accounts.
  5. Collaborate with SIers and Cloud Partners to generate opportunities, close deals, and propose post-close use cases.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of sales experience in the SaaS industry.
  • Experience in building, managing, developing, and closing new customer relationships.
  • Experience strategically developing new business by leveraging creative prospect generation capabilities.
  • Ability to accurately grasp customer challenges and propose appropriate solutions.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Ability to engage and influence the right people internally and externally to achieve bigger and faster results.
  • Ability to work effectively with various departments and support each other with a "One Team" mindset.

Nice to have

  • Business English proficiency.