Associate Solution Engineer

The role

Associate Solution Engineer will support sales teams and Senior SEs by providing presentations, demos, and technical explanations to prospects and existing customers. The role involves supporting PoC and technical verification to assist customer decision-making.

What you will do

• Support presentations, demos, and technical explanations for prospects and existing customers in collaboration with sales teams and Senior SEs.
• Understand customer business challenges and technical requirements to propose Snowflake value.
• Support the preparation and execution of PoC and technical verification.
• Continue learning about data, cloud, and AI evolution and deepen understanding of competing technologies.
• Collaborate with internal teams such as product, engineering, and marketing to share field learnings and customer feedback.
• Gradually improve technical, presentation, and customer proposal skills according to standard selection and training expectations in the Japan SE organization.

Required qualifications

• 3 or more years of experience in IT-related work
• Strong interest in SaaS, cloud, data platforms, analytics, or AI-related fields and ability to learn continuously
• Attitude of explaining technical content clearly to customers or internal stakeholders
• Basic understanding of databases, data warehouses, ETL, analytics, or cloud technology, or the ability to catch up quickly
• Basic knowledge of SQL and data utilization, or experience learning through hands-on practice
• Thinking ability to understand customer issues and connect them to solution proposals
• Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Fluent in Japanese and no resistance to working in English
• Attitude of involving those around you and working as One Team to achieve results

Nice to have

• Experience in pre-sales, solution proposal, Sales Engineer, Solution Engineer, consulting, or similar
• Experience in demos, hands-on, PoC, technical verification, or customer presentations
• Knowledge of surrounding technologies such as public cloud, BI, data integration, and AI/ML
• Experience involving both technology and business in customer-facing environments
• Ability to act while catching up in a fast-changing environment

Benefits

• Free lunch at office
• 401K (Corporate Defined Contribution Pension Plan)
• RSU
• Phone & Gym reimbursement
• 3 day Summer Vacation & 5 day Year-end Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave

About the company

Snowflake is building the world's best data and application platform. Their mission is to eliminate data silos and mobilize data around the world.