Senior Solution Engineer, Retail & Consumer Goods

Snowflake; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake seeks a Senior Solution Engineer to solve customers’ most complex problems and close large deals. You will partner with sales and channels to map customer needs, deliver compelling value-based demonstrations, support enterprise PoCs, and shepherd opportunities from demo through design and implementation.

You will thrive in a fast-moving environment, bridging business and technical discussions with executives and technical teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related field.
• Minimum 5 years in a pre-sales environment.
• 5+ years building and deploying ML and generative AI solutions in the cloud.
• Strong presentation skills to technical and executive audiences.
• Proactive curiosity about AI landscape and customer-focused thought leadership.
• Experience leveraging AI code generation tools to drive productivity.
• Extensive experience with DB/Data Warehouse tech, ETL, analytics and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Present Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers.
• Demonstrate and communicate value of Snowflake throughout the sales cycle from demo to PoC to design and implementation.
• Immerse in evolving AI landscape and understand competitive technologies to position Snowflake advantageously.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to improve Snowflake’s products and messaging.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Executive presentations

SQL

Python

ML/Generative AI in cloud

Data Warehouse

ETL

Cloud technologies

Customer discovery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related field

Masters in Data Science or MBA (plus)

Tools

Snowflake Platform

SQL tooling

Job description

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 Senior Solution Engineer who is accustomed to solving customer’s most complex problems and closing large deals. In this role you will work directly with the sales team and channel partners to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to navigate winning sales cycles, provide compelling value-based demonstrations, support enterprise Proof of Concepts, and ultimately close business.

As a Snowflake Solution Engineer you must share our passion about reinventing the database space, thrive in a dynamic environment and have the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get things done. You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop with technical audiences.

This is a remote role that requires about 25% travel. Candidates can sit anywhere in the USA.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:

• Present Snowflake 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
• Immerse 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.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing

ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:

• 5-7+ years of industry experience with a minimum of 5 years within a pre-sales environment
• Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.
• 5+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning and generative AI solutions in the cloud.
• Possesses a proactive curiosity for the AI landscape, striving to be a visionary and technical thought partner for customers navigating the space.
• A proven ability to leverage AI code generation tools to accelerate productivity and efficiency.
• Broad range of experience within large-scale Database and/or Data Warehouse technology, ETL, analytics and cloud technologies. For example, Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data Fabric
• Hands-on expertise with SQL,SQL analytics, and Python.
• Ability to connect a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solutions
• Ability to do deep discovery of customer’s architecture framework and connect those with Snowflake Data Architecture.
• University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred. Masters in DataScience or Business Administration is a plus.
• Experience with GSIs (EY, Deloitte, Accenture, etc), would be beneficial, but not required
• Expect approximately 30% travel

ABOUT OUR TEAM

Our Solution Engineers 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.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee’s duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

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