Consulting Manager

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · Riyadh-MSO, Saudi Arabia · Professional Services

This role is for a Consulting Manager at Snowflake, leading a team in Saudi Arabia focused on customer migrations to the Snowflake platform. The manager will act as a strategic expert, guiding customers, overseeing engagements, developing methodologies, and collaborating with various internal and external teams to drive business outcomes through Snowflake solutions. While the company emphasizes an 'agentic enterprise' and AI as a collaborator, the core responsibilities of this role are focused on platform implementation, migration strategy, sales pursuits, and team leadership within the data warehousing and analytics domain, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be a technical expert on all aspects of Snowflake
  2. Guide customers through the process of planning their migration journey to Snowflake
  3. Work with Services Delivery (SD), Practice Directors and Sales Account Team on sales pursuits – scoping PS engagements, pricing services, creating statements of work
  4. Work with Service Delivery Managers to oversee successful SD engagements and help with issue escalation
  5. Develop methodologies to improve the SD offerings and abilities to deliver complex engagements

Skills

Required

  • technical expert on Snowflake
  • customer migration planning
  • sales pursuits
  • scoping PS engagements
  • pricing services
  • statements of work
  • overseeing SD engagements
  • issue escalation
  • developing methodologies
  • improving SD offerings
  • strategies and partnerships
  • internal accelerators
  • reusable PS collaterals
  • competitive and complementary technologies
  • resolving customer-specific technical challenges
  • leadership
  • mentoring
  • management
  • collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing
  • presenting methodologies and capabilities
  • working with System Integrators and Technology Vendors
  • recruiting efforts for Solutions Architects
  • delivery quality oversight
  • guidance for migration projects
  • Minimum 7 years of experience working with customers in post-sales technical role
  • Minimum 3 years of people leadership and management experience
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in selling professional services; scoping large projects, writing statements of work
  • Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology (e.g. Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, etc.)
  • Experience with non-relational platforms and tools for large-scale data processing (e.g. Hadoop, HBase)
  • Familiarity and experience with common data integration and data transformation tools (e.g. Informatica, DataStage, Talend, Matillion)
  • Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau)
  • Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
  • Experience scoping multiple implementations of data platforms and holistically addressing the unique challenges of migrating and integrating the new platform
  • University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience
  • Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences
  • Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
  • Strong knowledge in data architecture, data warehouses, and data engineering
  • Experience and track record of success selling data and/or analytics software to enterprise customers
  • proven skills identifying key stakeholders, winning value propositions, and compelling events
  • Ability and flexibility for occasional travel

Nice to have

  • AI-native thinkers
  • innate curiosity
  • treating AI as a high-trust collaborator
  • low-ego individuals
  • dynamic and fast-moving environments
  • experimental mindset
  • rapidly test emerging capabilities
  • discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results
  • help redefine the future of how work gets done

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 7 years of experience working with customers in post-sales technical role
  • Minimum 3 years of people leadership and management experience
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in selling professional services; scoping large projects, writing statements of work