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Principal Solution Engineer - FSI

Snowflake · London, UK

Base
Not disclosed
OTE
Not disclosed
Posted
5mo ago

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

What Snowflake sells

One place for company data and AI tools

A company's data often sits in many separate systems, so nobody can see the whole picture. Snowflake gives that data one shared home where it can be stored and studied. Teams can then ask questions of their data and build AI tools right on top of it.

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The Braun Read

Ask hard questions

Too much is left unsaid. Make them answer before you invest.

Pay
No pay listed at all.
Transparency
Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle.
Pipeline
Mostly inbound or an assigned book.
Time on market
Open 157 days. Ask why it's been hard to fill.
Company hiring
41 sales roles open, hiring at a steady pace. Ask how many reps they hired last year and how many are still there.

Red flags

None spotted.

Worth asking about

  • Open 90+ days. This role has been posted for three months or more. Ask why it's been hard to fill, and whether anyone left it.

Green flags

  • SDR or inbound support. You won't be building all of your own pipeline from zero.

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.

    This role has been open a while. What's made it hard to fill?

    The answer tells you what candidates saw that made them walk.

  2. 2.

    What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?

    OTE is what you could earn. This is how likely you are to earn it.

  3. 3.

    What are the base and the OTE for this role?

    No point investing hours before you know the number.

  4. 4.

    Who's the economic buyer, and who else is in the deal?

    Selling to a CFO and selling to a developer are different jobs.

  5. 5.

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

    A quota built from real data is a target. Otherwise it's a hope.

  6. 6.

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

    New headcount is growth. A replacement means someone left. Ask why.

When the offer comes

Save these for later. They land better once they've said yes to you.

  1. 1.

    Can I see the full comp plan in writing, including clawbacks and accelerators?

    What's in writing is what gets paid. Read it before you sign.

  2. 2.

    Can I see the actual comp distribution for the team last year, not just the OTE?

    The spread shows what most reps really take home. OTE is just the target.

  3. 3.

    I'd be walking away from earned commission to join. Is there room for a sign-on bonus to help cover that?

    Leaving money behind is a fair reason to ask. The worst answer is no.

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The role

Pre-sales technical role supporting account teams and partners in UK financial services. You run demos, proofs of concept and architecture work to help prospects and customers choose Snowflake.

Inbound

Selling motion

Not stated in the posting.

Who you're selling to

Buyer:
Not stated in the posting.Ask: “Who's the economic buyer, and who else is in the deal?”

Pipeline expectations

Mostly inbound or an assigned book of business.

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 Principal 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 Solution 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 - Proactively contribute and help co-develop Account & territory plans and execute while engaging with the broader internal/external ecosystem. On day one you we will expect you to have: - Experience working with modern data technology (e.g. dbt, spark, containers, devops tooling, orchestration tools, git, etc.) - Solution 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: · Experience in the Wealth & Asset Management · Hands on experience with Python · Experience with AI, data science and machine learning technologies 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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