About the Role
Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. We seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. 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. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute sales strategies for the assigned district, leading the team to achieve quarterly and annual sales targets.
- Recruit, develop, coach, and manage the performance of the sales team, primarily Account Executives, to build a high-achieving organization.
- Build long-term trusted relationships with customers by understanding their business challenges, IT roadmaps, and data strategies, engaging with CxOs, IT executives, and LOB executives.
- Drive account planning, opportunity strategy, pipeline management, and improve forecast accuracy for assigned accounts.
- Lead sales activities for large and strategic deals, supporting deal formation, closing, expansion, and deepening customer relationships.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including sales engineering, professional services, marketing, and partners, to maximize customer outcomes as one team.
- Analyze market trends, competitive landscape, and customer needs within the assigned industry to inform Snowflake's positioning and go-to-market strategy.
- Develop future leaders and contribute to organizational expansion and continuous growth.
Requirements
- Over 8 years of corporate sales experience in the SaaS or enterprise software industry.
- Over 3 years of sales management experience with a proven track record in team management, development, and evaluation to achieve team goals.
- Proven experience leading account planning, opportunity management, and closing for large enterprise deals.
- Ability to accurately identify customer challenges and deliver value-based solutions with expected outcomes.
- Ability to manage sales organizations reproducibly through forecast, pipeline reviews, and opportunity strategy reviews.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to directly approach executives and build long-term relationships.
- Leadership skills to involve internal and external stakeholders and achieve results quickly and on a larger scale.
- One Team mindset to achieve results through collaboration with various departments.
- Proficiency in Japanese and comfort conducting business in English.
- Experience selling to complex enterprise customers.
- High interest in data, cloud, and AI domains, with the ability to continuously learn in a rapidly changing market environment.
- Strength in strategically forming opportunities involving customers, internal teams, and partners.
Skills
- AI-native thinking
- Problem-solving
- Experimental mindset
- Sales strategy development and execution
- Team building and talent development
- Executive relationship building
- Pipeline and opportunity management
- Strategic deal leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Market insight utilization
- Value selling
- Communication
- Presentation
- Leadership
- One Team mindset
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years of sales experience
- 3+ years of management experience
Benefits
- Free lunch at office
- 401K (Corporate Defined Contribution Pension Plan)
- RSU
- Phone reimbursement
- Gym reimbursement
- 3 day Summer Vacation
- 5 day Year-end Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
About the Company
- Snowflake is at the forefront of the data revolution, working to build the world's leading data and application platform.
- Our mission is to eliminate deep-rooted data silos within companies and mobilize data around the world.
- In the rapidly evolving era of data and AI, we aim to realize the next generation of data strategies that support customer transformation together.
- 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.
