Account Executive, Majors, Retail
Snowflake is hiring an Account Executive, Majors, Retail in Melbourne, Australia. Level rates it ; you can apply on Snowflake.
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- On Level's scale, this sales role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions sales, account management and retail among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Snowflake has 370 other open roles on Level.
- Posted within the past two weeks.
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Account Executive for retail majors selling data and AI cloud solutions while engaging with AI-native tools and strategies.
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.
Our Majors sales team is expanding and we are hiring a Majors Account Executive to grow our business across the retail industry. This is a senior selling role, working as part of a team: you will own your retail stakeholder relationships, run your own pipeline, and close deals end to end. This is a quota-carrying role, not a support or overlay function.
If you are a commercially hungry, technically curious salesperson who loves developing deep relationships with customers across business, technical and executive functions, growing your business through identifying, developing and closing high value business outcomes for your customers, loves working in a team dynamic, and has a passion for how data and AI are reshaping retail, this is that role.
AS A MAJORS ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Partner with the Global Account Manager on account strategy, contributing field intelligence, customer feedback, and opportunity insights to inform the broader account plan, along with driving customer advocacy through marketing initiatives, sales campaigns, education, and SI partner engagement
Own stakeholder relationships across a portfolio of major retail accounts, building trust and pipeline across Technology including Data, AI, Digital Ecomm and LOB eg: Customer, Commercial, Supply Chain, Merchandising, etc. Execute full-cycle deals, from creative prospecting and discovery through business case, procurement, and close
Act as a trusted advisor by understanding each retailer's current and future IT roadmap, connecting the Snowflake AI Data Cloud to outcomes such as demand forecasting, inventory and supply chain optimisation, customer personalisation, and omnichannel customer analytics
Build a territory plan with a target prospect list, and manage pipeline with rigour: prospecting, partner engagement, accurate forecasting, and tight CRM hygiene
Run structured deal cycles using MEDDPICC, including discovery, business case development, and procurement navigation
Land, adopt, and expand Snowflake within your accounts, achieving quota on a quarterly and annual basis
Work cross-functionally with Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, SDRs, Marketing, Legal, and Finance to deliver outcomes
Translate Snowflake capabilities such as Snowflake’s Agentic Control Plane, Ontology and Real Time operational Architecture Roadmaps as Customers move to Adopt AI across the enterprise.
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
A demonstrated, consistent track record of meeting or exceeding quota selling complex technical solutions into the enterprise market
Proven success developing and closing new opportunities and building strategic partnerships
Demonstrated ability to run full-cycle enterprise deals from prospecting through negotiation and close, including multi-million dollar annual revenue targets
Experience selling to senior business and technology stakeholders at Director, VP, and C-level
Working knowledge of MEDDPICC or a similar sales methodology applied in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
Familiarity with solution-based selling in one or more of: data warehousing, business intelligence, data science, analytics, cloud infrastructure, or AI/ML
Strong commercial instincts: you can connect a customer's problem to a business case and a close plan
A collaborative, low-ego approach: you give open, honest, and respectful feedback and make the team around you better
BONUS POINTS FOR:
Experience in data cloud, data warehouse, or AI/ML platform sales
Industry exposure to retail, consumer goods, or eCommerce
Existing relationships within the Australian retail enterprise market
Familiarity with retail data use cases such as loyalty, pricing, omnichannel marketing, and supplier collaboration
WHY JOIN OUR TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? 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
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.
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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
How we rate this
Account Executive, Majors, Retail at Snowflake rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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