Senior Manager, Solution Engineering Enablement

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · NC, United States · Remote · Sales

Senior Manager, Solution Engineering Enablement to lead a team serving as the enablement business partners for the Solution Engineering organization. This role will set the strategy for translating business priorities into capability programs, coaching the team to design systems that make the field more effective, and overseeing the design and execution of activation experiences, including AI-driven learning and responsible use of AI-generated content.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and develop a team of Enablement Business Partners, setting direction, prioritization, and operating rhythm to ensure high-impact delivery aligned to regional and global SE priorities
  2. Act as the senior strategic enablement partner to SE leadership, guiding your team in diagnosing skill gaps tied to business outcomes, prescribing targeted interventions, and measuring true capability change across the field
  3. Establish team-level frameworks for identifying, prioritizing, and addressing field capability gaps using data signals (Gong, Salesforce, theater analytics, leadership input, product roadmap changes, etc.)
  4. Oversee the design and execution of activation experiences across modalities (hands-on labs, AI-driven learning, peer learning, coaching systems), ensuring your team focuses on behavior change and business impact—not just completion metrics
  5. Set standards for content quality and governance: ensure your team curates, validates, and maintains high-quality enablement assets, including responsible use of AI-generated content and clear sources of truth across domains

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of related experience in enterprise software, with deep exposure to solution engineering, technical sales, or enablement in the data space
  • 3+ years of people management experience, including coaching and developing high-performing teams
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Exceptional business, technical, and sales acumen, with the ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels
  • Strong technical foundation in databases (OLAP/OLTP), SQL, and/or Python
  • Proven ability to design and scale enablement programs through others, not just direct execution
  • Strong leadership through influence, with the ability to establish executive sponsorship and align diverse stakeholders
  • Ability to operate in a fast-changing environment, balancing multiple priorities while maintaining high standards for quality and impact
  • Excellent communication and executive presentation skills
  • Highly organized, with strong program management and decision-making capabilities

Nice to have

  • Snowflake experience, SnowPro certifications, or equivalent data platform expertise is a plus
  • Experience with data science, Spark, or modern data stack technologies is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native thinkers
  • treating AI as a high-trust collaborator
  • accelerate field capability tied to business outcomes
  • design systems that make the field more effective
  • AI-driven learning
  • responsible use of AI-generated content