Senior Manager, Solution Engineering

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · Stockholm-MSO, Sweden · Solution Engineering

Snowflake is seeking a Senior Manager for Solution Engineering to lead a team of Stockholm-based Solution Engineers. This role involves partnering with sales leadership, understanding customer needs, strategizing sales cycles, providing demonstrations, supporting POCs, and closing business. The manager will also play a hands-on role in building and running the team, acting as a player/coach.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and lead a team of solution 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

  • 10+ years of industry experience in a pre-sales capacity
  • 4+ years of direct line management experience
  • Understanding of data architecture, data analytics and cloud technology
  • Experience with modern data technology (e.g. dbt, spark, containers, devops tooling, orchestration tools, git, etc.)
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Experience with SAAS or consumption-based business model
  • Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences

What the JD emphasized

  • direct line management experience
  • hiring, training and retaining top talent
  • Understanding of and experience with data architecture, data analytics and cloud technology
  • Experience working with modern data technology (e.g. dbt, spark, containers, devops tooling, orchestration tools, git, etc.)
  • Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.