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.