About the Role
As a Snowflake Alliance Sales Executive, you will operate at the front edge of growth for one of EY’s fastest-growing alliance relationships. This is a true sales hunter role focused on originating net-new opportunities, building pipeline, and closing sales through deep partnership with Snowflake and direct engagement with Financial Services clients. You will be a market-facing, quota-carrying, executive seller with deep expertise across the Snowflake platform and depth in the Financial Services industries. You will proactively create demand, identifying whitespace opportunities, shaping transformative conversations, and positioning Snowflake-powered EY solutions. You will also embed AI-driven thinking and tools into every aspect of your sales role.
Responsibilities
- Originate net-new pipeline within Financial Services by identifying unmet needs, emerging priorities, and transformation opportunities.
- Drive sales across direct client origination, Snowflake/EY co-sell motions, and EY account team-led pursuits.
- Lead early-stage opportunity identification and qualification, independently shaping pursuits from signal detection through deal maturation.
- Demonstrate deep understanding of Financial Services clients’ pressing challenges, including data fragmentation, cloud data modernization, regulatory compliance, governance, data lineage, financial crime, fraud, risk analytics, AI enablement, and data resiliency.
- Translate Snowflake platform capabilities into business outcomes that resonate with senior Financial Services executives.
- Build trusted executive relationships that position EY as a strategic transformation partner.
- Demonstrate deep understanding of banking, capital markets, insurance, and wealth/asset management organizations’ pressing issues, risk constraints, policy drivers, and regulatory impacts.
- Translate Snowflake capabilities into outcomes including resiliency/availability, regulatory compliance and trust, fraud and financial crime detection, enterprise data modernization, cybersecurity, and AI-driven risk management and growth.
- Infuse AI into the full sales lifecycle, including account and opportunity analytics, intelligent prospecting, pattern recognition, AI-supported storytelling, proposal shaping, pursuit orchestration, and leveraging digital sales agents.
- Champion AI-enabled EY and Snowflake solutions with credibility, demonstrating both technical fluency and business impact.
- Serve as a role model for modern, AI-forward sales execution.
- Deep sector and Snowflake technology expertise, with the ability to translate that knowledge into enterprise-scale transformations that deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Be the face of EY’s Snowflake Alliance within EY’s Financial Services business and the face of EY to Snowflake FS teams.
- Envision and activate a multi-alliance ecosystem, helping position EY as the firm that orchestrates partners, platforms and services to unlock new growth and transformation opportunities for clients.
- Orchestrate cross-service line and cross-functional teams to bring the best of EY to pursuit opportunities.
- Coach and influence account teams and peers through active leadership in the market.
Requirements
- 10+ years of quota-carrying sales experience in professional services, technology, and/or enterprise solutions.
- Demonstrated success as a net-new business hunter, not solely an account or alliance manager.
- Direct experience & success selling to financial services clients and deep expertise in the key issues and opportunities facing financial services clients.
- Strong Snowflake ecosystem experience, including co-sell and channel-led motions.
- Deep knowledge of the Snowflake platform.
- Experience with the broader Snowflake partner ecosystem and how Snowflake fits into a multi-vendor landscape.
- Prior experience selling at a Big Four firm or large global systems integrator.
- Exceptional client relationship management and executive communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent).
- Technical background or delivery/program leadership experience.
- Experience selling large, complex, multi-stakeholder transformation programs.
- Strong coaching and mentoring capability.
- Proven team-selling experience across alliances and solution teams.
- Willingness to travel up to 50%.
Skills
- Hunter mindset with a strong bias for action, curiosity, and persistence.
- Exceptional executive presence with the ability to influence senior client, EY, and Snowflake stakeholders.
- Proven ability to navigate and succeed in a highly matrixed, alliance-driven environment.
- Consultative selling style—trusted advisor, not transactional seller.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to connect technology to business outcomes.
- Comfortable leveraging data and AI insights to guide decisions and storytelling.
- Deep understanding of Financial Services clients’ most pressing challenges.
- Translate Snowflake platform capabilities into business outcomes.
- Build trusted executive relationships.
- Deep understanding of banking, capital markets, insurance, and wealth/asset management organizations’ most pressing issues.
- Translate Snowflake capabilities into outcomes.
- Infuse AI into the full sales lifecycle.
- Champion AI-enabled EY and Snowflake solutions.
- Serve as a role model for modern, AI-forward sales execution.
- Deep sector and Snowflake technology expertise.
- Envision and activate a multi-alliance ecosystem.
- Orchestrate cross-service line and cross-functional teams.
- Coach and influence account teams and peers.
Location
- New York
- Hoboken
- Iselin
- Stamford
- Jericho
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Associate Director
- 10+ years of quota-carrying sales experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent)
Salary/Compensations
- US base salary range: $221,410 to $280,070 plus participation in an incentive compensation program.
- New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) base salary range: $265,650 to $318,290 plus participation in an incentive compensation program.
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- Wide range of paid time off options
- Flexible vacation policy
- Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence.
About the Company
- EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
- Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
- EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions.
- Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
Equal Opportunity
- EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.
- EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities.
