Snowflake

Strategic Finance - Strategic Engagements, Deal Lead (NoAM)

US-CA-Menlo Park. Posted 10 days ago

The role

You will own the commercial structuring and execution of high-priority customer engagements across North America. You will build deal economic frames, lead pricing and commercial structuring, and partner with account leadership and cross-functional teams.

What you will do

  • Build the deal-by-deal economic frame for qualifying engagements.
  • Lead pricing and commercial structuring across various deal structures.
  • Shape commercial strategy and economic frames to win acquisition deals and protect margins.
  • Track concessions against margin-dilution thresholds.
  • Coordinate Revenue Accounting, Legal, Pricing, and ELT engagement.
  • Coach account executives on package strategy and negotiation sequencing.
  • Join customer conversations with senior stakeholders.
  • Adhere to the Strategic Engagements playbook standards.
  • Use AI-assisted workflows for deal modeling and other tasks.
  • Build the repeatable playbook by feeding lessons from closed deals back into processes.

Required qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in strategic finance, deal desk, pricing, commercial operations, sales finance, investment banking, or equivalent commercial roles.
  • Experience structuring large enterprise commercial deals including net-new logo acquisitions and installed-base expansions.
  • Comfort with deals greater than $75M TCV.
  • High agency and standalone execution.
  • Exceptional commercial judgment.
  • Strong financial modeling skills.
  • Working understanding of cloud and software-as-a-service commercial models.
  • Customer-facing presence for engaging senior customer stakeholders.
  • Effective communicator.
  • AI-native disposition.
  • Comfort with ambiguity.
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

Nice to have

  • MBA or advanced degree
  • Hands-on experience structuring deals at a high-growth cloud, data, AI, or SaaS company.
  • Familiarity with consumption-based and usage-based pricing in cloud, data, or AI platforms.
  • Experience with competitive pricing analysis and willingness-to-pay research.
  • Familiarity with revenue accounting (ASC 606), SOX controls, and audit-ready process design.
  • SQL fluency or comfort working directly with commercial data in a cloud data platform.

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The Strategic Finance team operates at the intersection of product strategy, pricing, and investment prioritization.