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Sr. Account Executive, Majors, Financial Services

Snowflake · New York, NY

Base
$176K–$231K
OTE
Not disclosed
Posted
1mo ago

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Pay
Base is listed but not OTE. Ask what the variable is and how many people hit it.
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 55+ days. Ask why it's been hard to fill.
Company hiring
33 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.

The role

Senior AE on Snowflake's Majors team selling its data platform to large financial services customers. You run discovery, demos, POCs, and post-sales technical guidance. Requires 10+ years enterprise SaaS sales.

Enterprise

Selling motion

Not stated in the posting.

Who you are selling to

Enterprise

Pipeline expectations

Not stated in the posting.

Compensation

$176K–$231K base

What is not disclosed

This posting doesn't tell you:

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

Worth asking about on your first call.

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. An Account Executive on our Majors team is one of Snowflake's most senior individual contributor sales roles. Our Account Executives are customer obsessed and we believe in the value we can add and stay honest about it. We love to learn, are open to giving and receiving feedback and are passionate about making our clients successful. Our team works to ensure data is accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. This role will be supporting our Financial Service division.   YOU MAY BE A GOOD FIT FOR THE TEAM IF YOU: - Act customer first and obsessed with helping customers drive digital transformation. - Think big and demonstrate excellence in the application of technology to solve all kinds of problems. - Possess a “Get it done” and “Own it” philosophy to drive customer success. - Knowledge and experience within the data science, analytics, or big data markets. - Feel comfortable talking with all levels of customer teams from individual contributors to C-level executives using language that appropriately translates complex technical and business information.   IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: - Build trusted relationships with Snowflake internal resources, external partners, and client account teams to qualify deals, identify business value, and provide technical guidance in order to set proper expectations to ensure customer satisfaction - Leverage knowledge of a domain or industry to align Snowflake’s value to the customers’ business and technical problems - Immerse yourself in the ever-evolving technology and landscape while maintaining a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them. - Conduct discovery meetings to collect, analyze, clarify, and document business requirements during the sales cycle to support the implementation team and produce a detailed solution proposal. - Work hands-on with prospects and customers to deliver standard, customized and/or strategic solution demonstrations, white boarding, presentations, and best practices that showcase functional capabilities, competitive advantages, and business benefits of the Snowflake solutions throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation. - Guides customers in digital transformation and cloud adoption, understanding where Snowflake integrates with holistic architecture and strategy. - Provide ongoing, post-sales, technical guidance to the customer’s technical team to drive customer utilization of Snowflake and digital transformation success - Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing.   ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE: - 10+ years of relevant experience in an enterprise sales role for a SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS company - Experience working with FIS customers highly preferred - Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences - Exceptional problem solving, organizational, decision making and presentation skills - Ability to work in an independent, collaborative and fast paced environment - Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math or equivalent experience preferred - Ability to travel regionally as needed 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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