District Manager, Commercial Acquisition

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · Ontario-Toronto, CA · Sales

Snowflake is seeking a Commercial Sales Manager to lead and develop an inside sales team, focusing on driving revenue growth for their AI-powered enterprise solutions. The role involves recruiting, coaching, and motivating sales professionals, influencing go-to-market strategy, and ensuring the team meets sales targets. The ideal candidate will have experience selling cloud solutions, managing sales teams, and navigating complex commercial negotiations, with a strong understanding of Snowflake's product and a customer-first mindset.

What you'd actually do

  1. Recruit and build successful sales professionals into high-performing revenue drivers for Snowflake
  2. Build cross-functional relationships with internal and external support teams & technical partners
  3. Influence go-to-market strategy for venture backed/high growth startups.
  4. Develop a team culture around Snowflake Core Values
  5. Sell an industry changing and market defining product

Skills

Required

  • Sales Management
  • Team Leadership
  • Cloud Solutions Sales
  • Negotiation
  • Strategic Planning
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Forecasting
  • Business Value Selling
  • Coaching Sales Teams

Nice to have

  • Snowflake Product Knowledge
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Go-to-Market Strategy Influence
  • Diversity and Inclusion Promotion

What the JD emphasized

  • proven track record of creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment
  • strong communication skills
  • open to giving and receiving constructive feedback
  • adept at recognizing and celebrating the achievements of others
  • genuine passion for our technology
  • commitment to continuous learning and teaching
  • understanding of Snowflake's product
  • Drive to enable, coach, develop and motivate a robust inside sales team
  • Developed territories by planning strategically and effectively
  • 2+ years guiding Account Executives through complex legal and commercial negotiations
  • A customer first mindset
  • Consistently executed what is forecasted to senior management
  • Understand how to sell business value, using a repeatable process
  • Coach reps on how to create urgency and deal control
  • BA/BS required
  • 3+ years selling Cloud Solutions, Infrastructure Software, Databases, Analytic Tools, or Applications Software
  • 2+ years managing a team of sales teams
  • Sold to CEOs, CTOs, Heads of Product, Engineering, or Data Science
  • Ability to coach your team how to target and pursue an opportunity with our ideal customer profile within a complex sales cycle
  • Experience outperforming targets as an individual contributor in an outbound role
  • Ability to coach AEs how to navigate commercial and legal negotiations when working with procurement, legal, and business teams.
  • Ability to work with sales engineering managers and customers to inventory existing software state, define migration plans, and build business cases for migrations to drive new logo acquisition.