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Associate Solution Engineer

Snowflake · London, UK

Base
Not disclosed
OTE
Not disclosed
Posted
21d ago

Still open · checked 3h agoon Snowflake's careers page

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Proceed with caution

A few things here deserve a hard look before you spend time on it.

Pay
No pay listed at all.
Transparency
Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle.
Pipeline
Doesn't say where pipeline comes from. Ask.
Time on market
Open 21 days.
Company hiring
49 sales roles open, hiring at a steady pace. Ask how many reps they hired last year and how many are still there.

Based only on what the posting says. Flags are a starting point for your first call, not a final judgment.

Questions to ask on the first call

Built from what this posting leaves out. How they answer tells you as much as what they say.

  1. 1.

    What percent of reps hit quota last year?

    Not in the posting

  2. 2.

    What are the base and the OTE for this role?

    No pay listed

  3. 3.

    What's the annual quota, and how was it set?

    Not in the posting

  4. 4.

    Where does pipeline come from: inbound, SDRs, or me?

    Not in the posting

  5. 5.

    How long is ramp, and what's the quota during it?

    Not in the posting

  6. 6.

    Why is this role open? Did someone leave, or is it new?

    Always ask

The role

Pre-sales technical role supporting the UK account sales team and channel partners. You run demos, proofs of concept and technical evaluations to help prospects choose Snowflake.

Selling motion

Not stated in the posting.

Who you are selling to

Not stated in the posting.

Pipeline expectations

Not stated in the posting.

Compensation

The posting doesn't list pay.

What is not disclosed

This posting doesn't tell you:

  • Base salary
  • OTE
  • Quota size
  • Quota attainment
  • Average deal size
  • Territory
  • Sales cycle length

The questions above cover the big ones.

Full posting
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are looking for a Associate Solution Engineer for the UK market who can solve our customer’s most complex problems. In this role you will work directly with the account sales team and channel partners to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to best support them in their evaluation and ultimately help our customers choose Snowflake as their solution.   As a Snowflake Associate Solutions Engineer you share our passion for solving complex data challenges and helping organizations to get the most out of their data assets. Our technical landscape is ever evolving and you are keen to learn new skills and put them into practice on real world challenges. You are able to translate features and functions into solutions that solve business problems, in conversations with technical or business teams, with end users or executives.     IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: - Present Snowflake’s technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers - Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate and communicate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation - Create and develop technical champions in your accounts to drive deals and achieve a technical win - Be at the cutting edge of Snowflake technology and confidently present Snowflake roadmap features and functionality to customers and/or prospects - Immerse and enable yourself in the ever-evolving industry, maintaining a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them - Work closely with other sales engineers to make each other the best and constantly learn from wins and losses - Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing - Represent Snowflake at industry or customer events - Work with our ecosystem and implementation partners to build joint architectures or collaborate on account strategies and initiatives to help our customers be successful   ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE: - Sales engineering/solution architect experience in a SaaS environment or relevant industry experience (analytics, data science, data engineering etc) - Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos - Understanding of and experience with data architecture, data analytics and cloud technology - Hands on experience with SQL - Ability to solve customer specific business problems and apply Snowflake’s solutions - Customer-facing skills to effectively communicate our vision to a wide variety of technical and executive audiences both written and verbal   PREFERRED (BUT NOT REQUIRED) TO HAVE: - Hands on experience with Python - Experience working with modern data technology (e.g. dbt, spark, containers, devops tooling, orchestration tools, git, etc.) - Experience with data science and machine learning technology   People want to buy from people who understand them. Our Solutions Engineers build connections, relationships and trust with our customers that last. We love to learn, are open to giving and receiving feedback and are passionate about making our customers and each other successful.   Think you have what it takes but not sure that you tick every box above? Apply anyways! We value the broad range of experience our teams bring to the table and believe our customers are more successful because of it. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com
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