Sr. Account Executive, Majors, Financial Services

Snowflake; New York (NY); On-site; USD 176,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking an experienced Account Executive on our Majors team to drive strategic deals in the Financial Services sector. You will build trusted relationships, qualify opportunities, and translate complex technical value into business outcomes for executive stakeholders.

You will partner with product, engineering, and marketing to demonstrate Snowflake’s data cloud advantages, manage the end-to-end sales cycle from discovery to proof of concept, and help customers achieve digital

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise sales experience in an SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS environment.
• Experience working with FIS customers highly preferred.
• Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to travel regionally as needed.
• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math or equivalent experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with client account teams to qualify deals, identify business value, and provide technical guidance.
• Leverage domain knowledge to align Snowflake’s value to customers’ business and technical problems.
• Stay informed about competitive technologies and position Snowflake accordingly.
• Conduct discovery meetings to capture business requirements and support implementation teams.
• Deliver demonstrations, white boarding, and best practices to showcase Snowflake’s capabilities across the sales cycle.
• Guide customers in digital transformation and cloud adoption, showing how Snowflake integrates with enterprise architecture.
• Provide post-sales, technical guidance to drive customer utilization and success.

Skills

Enterprise sales experience

SaaS sales

Executive presenting

FIS experience

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math or equivalent experience

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.

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

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• This role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's commission plan and it is common for employees in this role to receive total on-target earnings of $352,000 - $462,000. The estimated base salary for this role is $176,000 - $231,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s equity plan.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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