About the Role
Snowflake is seeking AI-native thinkers to power the era of the agentic enterprise. The RVP, Priority Support Engineering - EMEA will own paid support offerings end-to-end for their region, leading a team of Designated Support Engineers (DSEs) and driving proactive, advisory-led customer engagements. This role is crucial for transforming premium support into a measurable lever for workload health, consumption growth, and long-term customer value, leveraging AI to anticipate risk and scale insights.
Responsibilities
- Build deep technical and executive relationships with strategic customers.
- Ensure paid support programs meet customer needs for current and future workloads.
- Maintain Customer Satisfaction, retention, and successful post-sales delivery of paid support engagements.
- Lead the DSE team's contribution to the proactive, advisory-led support model.
- Collaborate with reactive support leadership to ensure strong delivery health for paid support accounts.
- Partner with Snowflake field teams on post-go-live consumption health and identify growth opportunities.
- Own executive sponsorship and customer narrative for at-risk paid support accounts.
- Own the regional sales cycle for paid support programs.
- Partner with Sales VPs and Solutions Engineering Directors to position paid support programs.
- Lead the Go-to-Market motion for paid support in the assigned region.
- Articulate the value of paid support to customers and Sales counterparts.
- Define and operationalize the handoff from pre-sales to post-sales production support.
- Communicate pipeline activity to Global Support leadership and regional Sales leaders.
- Accountable for regional revenue targets for paid support programs.
- Build, hire, and lead the regional Priority Support team.
- Recruit and develop talent, coaching front-line managers.
- Communicate forward demand to Resource Management and Delivery.
- Establish operating cadence, including forecasts and business reviews.
- Contribute to the development of paid support program policies, procedures, and pricing.
- Monitor team performance and provide coaching.
- Lead the DSE team as an AI-native function, setting the standard for AI-augmented engagement delivery.
- Demonstrate detailed Snowflake product knowledge.
- Understand the technical complexities of the modern data and AI cloud.
- Provide strong consultative skills and understanding of paid support engagement models.
Requirements
- Sales-minded leader with 10+ years in enterprise customer-facing roles, with a track record of either leading a paid support/premium services organization OR selling/positioning technical solutions in a senior field role.
- Proven track record owning or carrying a revenue target tied to attach, expansion, or renewal.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing a multi-layered organization in a high-growth SaaS or cloud environment.
- Knowledge of the data warehousing, data management, analytics, AI, and/or cloud computing space.
- Experience selling and positioning technical solutions to enterprise customers and managing commercial targets.
- Comfort operating inside transformation, moving a team from one operating model to another.
- Executive-level communication and customer-facing presence.
- Comfortable with Salesforce or other leading CRM tools.
- Demonstrated experience leading teams or running customer engagements using AI-native or AI-augmented approaches.
Skills
- AI-native thinking
- AI-augmented engagement delivery
- Predictive workload analysis
- AI-driven customer insights
- Consultative skills
- Executive presence
- Commercial fluency
- Program management
- Project management
- Process management
Location
- EMEA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years in enterprise customer-facing roles
- 5+ years of leadership experience
About the Company
- Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
- We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
