The SE Manager for Australia will work hand-in-hand with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing to help us bring our first product to market and grow the company. She/he will be responsible for providing the technical expertise to make Snowflake customers successful. This role will have a broad range of skills and experience ranging from data architecture to ETL, security, performance analysis, analytics, etc. He/she will have the insight to make the connection between a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solution, the customer-facing skills to communicate that connection and vision to a wide variety of technical and executive audiences, and the technical skills to be able to not only build demos and execute proof-of-concepts but also to provide consultative assistance on architecture and implementation.   The person we’re looking for shares our passion about reinventing the data platform and thrives in the dynamic environment that comes with being part of the first team to bring Snowflake’s innovative technology to a new market. That means having the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get done what needs to be done to make Snowflake and our customers successful. It means keeping up to date on the ever-evolving technologies for data and analytics in order to be an authoritative resource for both Snowflake and customers. And it means working collaboratively with a broad range of people both inside and outside the company.

**AS AN SE MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: **

• 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.
• Maintain 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.
• Recruit, interview and hire new sales engineers.
• Cultivate and develop SEs with opportunities to “sharpen the saw” with interaction with Snowflake leadership and engineering team members, Sales training, etc.
• Help evangelize Snowflake within your new market, participate in marketing events and speaking engagements

**OUR IDEAL SE MANAGER WILL HAVE: **

• Minimum 10 years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role.
• Extensive experience in the Australian Public-Sector (NHS, Local & Central Government, Education)
• Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.
• Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools.
• Strong skills in databases, data warehouses, and data processing.
• Hands-on expertise with SQL and SQL analytics.
• Spoken and written English skills.

**STRONGLY DESIRED: **

• Experience and a track record of success selling data and/or analytics software to enterprise customers; includes proven skills identifying key stakeholders, winning value propositions, and compelling events.
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology (e.g. Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum).
• Software development experience with C/C++ or Java.
• Scripting experience with Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash.
• University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience.

**BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: **

• Experience with non-relational platforms and tools for large-scale data processing (e.g. Hadoop, HBase).
• Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau).
• Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack).
• Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom and packaged tools.
• Experience using AWS services such as S3, Kinesis, Elastic MapReduce, Data Pipeline.
• Experience selling enterprise SaaS software.
• Proven success at enterprise software startups.