Sr. Account Executive, Majors, Financial Services
Snowflake is hiring a Sr. Account Executive, Majors, Financial Services in New York, United States. It pays $176k-$231k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Snowflake.
Level's read on this job
- Uses AI ●●○○ is how Level rates this sales role: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- The listed pay starts 26% above the typical sales posting on Level.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include enterprise sales, financial services and data science.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 354 other open roles at Snowflake.
AI in this role
Drive enterprise software and data platform sales for major financial services accounts while leveraging AI productivity tools.
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
How we rate this
Sr. Account Executive, Majors, Financial Services at Snowflake rates 50 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Pay
- This job starts at
- $176k
- Typical sales job
- $140k
This posting starts 26% above the typical sales job. See sales jobs
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- Tell me about a project where enterprise sales was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where financial services was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where data science was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where big data was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where relationship management was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Enterprise Sales, Financial Services, Data Science, Big Data, and Relationship Management. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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- Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.
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