Senior District Manager, Enterprise Acquisition

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · NY-New York, United States · Sales

This role is for a Senior District Manager, Enterprise Acquisition at Snowflake. The role focuses on leading and developing an enterprise sales team, driving revenue growth, and influencing go-to-market strategy. While the company emphasizes AI and an 'agentic enterprise' vision, this specific role is in sales management and does not involve direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

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

  • 2+ years guiding Account Executives through complex legal and commercial negotiations
  • BA/BS required
  • 10+ 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.

Nice to have

  • An understanding of Snowflake's product in order to be able to provide guidance to navigate complex technical evaluations
  • Drive to enable, coach, develop and motivate a robust Enterprise sales team
  • Developed territories by planning strategically and effectively
  • A customer first mindset to ensure success
  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ 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.