Rvp, Emea Sales - Observability

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · London, United Kingdom · Sales

Snowflake is seeking a Regional Leader for EMEA Enterprise Sales to drive new customer acquisition and expansion for their observability platform. The role requires a strong understanding of modern observability platforms and experience leading sales teams in a technical sales environment. The leader will focus on building a high-performing team, driving go-to-market strategy, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

What you'd actually do

  1. Recruit, develop, and lead a team of sales professionals focused on both acquiring new customers and expanding existing relationships
  2. Drive a balanced GTM motion across new logo, expansion, and consumption growth
  3. Partner cross-functionally with Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Marketing, and Product to deliver customer outcomes
  4. Influence go-to-market strategy, especially within high-growth and data-forward organizations
  5. Build and reinforce a team culture aligned with core values

Skills

Required

  • Strong understanding of modern observability platforms, data infrastructure, or adjacent technologies
  • Experience leading both new logo acquisition and expansion/upsell motions within enterprise accounts
  • A passion for coaching, developing, and motivating high-performing Account Executives
  • Demonstrated success in territory planning and segmentation across greenfield and existing accounts
  • 5+ years of experience guiding AEs through complex commercial and legal negotiations
  • A customer-first mindset with a focus on long-term value creation and retention
  • A track record of accurate forecasting and consistent execution against targets
  • Experience selling business value using a structured, repeatable sales process
  • Ability to coach reps on creating urgency, multi-threading, and maintaining deal control
  • BA/BS required
  • 10+ years of experience selling cloud, infrastructure, observability, data platforms, or enterprise software
  • 2+ years of experience managing high-performing enterprise sales teams
  • Experience selling to senior technical and business stakeholders (CIO, CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Data, etc.)
  • Proven ability to coach teams on navigating complex, multi-stage sales cycles across both acquisition and expansion
  • Experience exceeding targets as an individual contributor in an outbound/new business role
  • Ability to coach AEs through procurement, legal, and commercial negotiations
  • Experience partnering with technical teams to assess current environments, identify opportunities, and build compelling business cases for both initial adoption and expanded use cases

Nice to have

  • low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments
  • experimental mindset
  • growth mindset
  • operational rigor
  • passion for building high-performing teams
  • exceptional communicator
  • active coach

What the JD emphasized

  • new logo acquisition and expansion/upsell motions
  • acquiring new customers and expanding existing relationships
  • initial adoption and expanded use cases