Manager, Solution Engineering

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · London, United Kingdom · Solution Engineering

Manager for Sales Engineering role at Snowflake, focusing on leading a team of Sales Engineers in the UK. The role involves understanding customer needs, strategizing sales cycles, providing demonstrations, supporting POCs, and closing business. It requires building and running a team, partnering with sales leadership, interpreting complex problems, and collaborating with various internal teams. The role also includes candidate sourcing and interviewing, acting as a player/coach.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and lead a team of sales engineers who serve as our core product introduction, evaluation and education experts
  2. Partner with sales leadership to achieve regional quota targets, our goals and ensure relationships are built
  3. Provide guidance to revenue leaders on sales strategy, product obstacles/gaps and represent the team’s needs to executive staff
  4. Interpret complex problems, create simple solutions and collaborate closely with prospects, channel partners and our sales team to deliver winning solutions
  5. Collaborate and maintain a close working relationship with product, engineering, sales, marketing and services

Skills

Required

  • Industry experience in a pre-sales capacity
  • Industry expertise within DataScience, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and/or Cloud Computing
  • Experience with SAAS or consumption-based business model
  • Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences
  • Ability to connect a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solutions
  • University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of industry experience in a pre-sales capacity