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Persson: Snowflake is hiring GTM engineers over business analysts
“I think the GTM engineer function has clearly is that's the one we're hiring for business analysts, not so much anymore.”
Persson: Snowflake will not expand content marketing headcount due to AI productivity
“So there are certain kind of functions like let's say our content marketing team, they're able to do of course so significantly more than they did on their own. Exactly. So it won't be a function that we will sort of invest more in in terms of, you know, headc…”
Persson: Startups should enter existing categories rather than creating new ones
“I think it's much better to break into an already existing category with something significantly better than in the early days, try to do something bigger.”
Snowflake CMO: Dashboards are dead because AI allows real-time data interrogation
“That's why I'm saying that the dashboard is dead. I don't think it's fully dead yet. But again, that ability to really understand the why and get, you know, recommendations in real time.”
Persson: No one will be asking for more headcount next year
“I think for next year, I don't think anyone is going to come back and say, I'm going to need more headcount for this.”
Persson: Traditional weekly training sessions fail for enterprise AI education
“This is not a time, right, where that traditional kind of, ah, weekly training sessions, right, is working anymore. And also, also when you deliver training today, right, you might have 80% sitting there saying, I already know all this, and 20%, wow, this is w…”
Snowflake centrally funds AI experimentation rather than charging departmental budgets
“The AI cost for any, again, all, all, all that is actually at an, at the company level at the moment. It will probably change, you know, next year, but the, From a company perspective and from the leadership and our CEO, right, he doesn't want someone's budget…”
Persson: Telling every employee to test AI creates duplicate effort and chaos
“What we haven't seen working well is really to go out and ask everyone on your team. To tell everyone to go out and test new things, it really creates a lot of unnecessary deprecation of efforts and also chaos, you know, as well.”
Persson: Consistency in marketing messaging beats being 100% accurate
“It's almost more important to be consistent than being hundred percent right, I would say.”
Persson: Generative AI more than doubles meeting booking rates for SDRs
“So we're seeing more than double the meeting rates for those teams who've been using generative AI for their messages and their emails and everything.”
Persson: Snowflake cut marketing cost per opportunity by 30% over six months
“Just looking back in the last, you know, six months, we've been able to lower our cost per opportunity with 30%.”
Persson: Snowflake marketing is directly accountable for new business pipeline
“At Snowflake marketing owns the new business pipeline, right? So that's what I would be, that's what I'm accountable for”
Persson: AI generates fully customized customer presentations to save significant time
“Now you can create complete, you know, custom presentation depending on exactly on that customers, what they care about. That's pretty, pretty huge time-said.”
Persson: Demand for in-person events is going through the roof
“In terms of events, we're just seeing the demand for events, all those in-person experiences, it's going off the roof right now.”
Persson: Outcome-Driven Demand Is Driving Forward Deployed Engineering
“I think we're seeing now the world moving very much towards, we're looking for specific business outcomes. And that's of course where the, this FD function comes in, right? They go in on like, Hey, we're going to help you accomplish this specific outcome versu…”
Persson: Enterprise Demand for Deployment Help Stems From Team Execution Gaps
“Definitely. Because also when you talk to customers, right? They all, many of them now have like, they have a vision, right? They know where they need to go. And they also understand that the technology is here for it. But they don't really have the confidence…”
Persson: Snowflake requires quarterly AI learning and building OKRs for all marketers
“Also we have, we call our quarterly what matters. Essentially it's like our OKRs on the team and everyone across the team, they need to have a what matter for AI... So we all have sort of an AI skill we need to learn on our quarterly, what matters. And also so…”
Persson: Soft skills and adaptability now outweigh tool certifications in marketing hiring
“Now more and more, the soft skills are becoming more important. Are you, things are changing so fast. So are you someone who can really adapt with the speed? Do you have that kind of sense of fire within from a curiosity standpoint, adaptability, you know, sel…”
Persson: Snowflake mandates meeting every job candidate in person before hiring
“I think that's also what we learned, that we have as a full mandate, right, that we cannot hire anyone before we have met this person.”
Persson: Snowflake Requires Central Certification Before AI Agents Scale Across Teams
“For us right now, we're basically just encouraging everyone at every level of the company to kind of, to build, you know, agents, to build, you know, apps, you know, on their own. It's going to come to a point where we're going to have to kind of rein this in …”
Persson: Enterprise AI Agents Will Require a Centralized Control Layer
“I think we're gonna see probably a similar thing happening, In from an agent standpoint, right? Where there's gonna have to be, you know, a control layer around this.”
Snowflake moved sales enablement, partner enablement, and customer training under marketing
“And actually just a few months ago, we moved our whole sales enablement, partner enablement, customer training over to marketing.”
Persson: Enablement training will face massive AI disruption next
“So I think that whole world of enablement training is gonna be up for massive, you know, disruption, you know, next.”
Persson: 90% of Snowflake's 450 marketers use AI daily
“And on a daily basis now, 90% of our marketing organization are using AI on a daily basis. We have about 450, you know, marketers on the Snowflake team, you know, around the world.”
Persson: Snowflake data agent product enters general availability on November 4
“And we actually, this product, right? That is a snowflake product coming out in GA in November. So there will be a big announcement on November fourth. Anyone who's using snowflake is going to be able to use this agent for their use cases as well.”
Persson: Enterprise AI progress fails without an explicit CEO mandate
“I also advise some companies Sit on board of companies, and there are some companies where the leadership, the mandate doesn't come from a leadership level, and nothing is happening in those organizations. The CEO really need to say this is one of our top prio…”
Persson: Snowflake assigns sales quotas to regional marketing, not HQ
“At a headquarter, we have no quota on the marketing team, right? The regional teams, they have quotas.”
Snowflake CMO: Conversational AI eliminated her need to Slack data teams
“Nobody, nobody gets any Slack messages from me anymore, right? It's quiet because I can get, you know, I can get all the answers to my questions now that I couldn't get before.”
Persson: Snowflake's marketing organization has about 700 people
“We have about 700 people in marketing. We also have our whole Customer training, partner enablement, sales enablement team and marketing as well.”
Persson: Marketing cannot fix pipeline shortfalls in the quarter's final weeks
“Everyone in marketing have been that last couple of weeks in the quarter where you're like, we don't have enough pipeline, right? It's too late. It is way too late for marketing to do anything that quarter”
Persson: Snowflake marketing must deliver 40% to 50% growth without budget increases
“I think we are, have, you know, 40, 50% growth we need to deliver on this year, but it's not like we, we're not getting more resources. You know, to do that.”
Persson: Snowflake relies on a centralized AI engineering team and control plane
“We also have a centralized sort of AI engineering team, which is also very important to understand, okay, what are, again, what are these agencies? Doing that we are, we have developed, right? I mean are we compliant? Is our data safe? Are these agents having …”
Persson: Brand team members lead Snowflake marketing's AI usage leaderboard
“If we look, let's say our leaderboard, we actually do have a leaderboard as well in terms of, it is actually sort of a usage-based leaderboard... But again, the leaders on the board are people from our brand team. I didn't expect them to be there, but the top …”
Snowflake sales and marketing use a centrally certified GTM agent named Raven
“We have our own kind of GTM agent called Raven, that's really what our entire sales organization is using, as well as the market organization, and that is very, again, that one is then also centrally managed, all the kind of skills within Raven is certified”
Persson: Snowflake Dedicates ~20 Central AI Staff to Sales and Marketing
“So we also have, again, a central AI data organization of Snowflake, and they have people on that team that are dedicated to sales and marketing. I think that might be around 20 people or so that are dedicated to sales and marketing. I mean, we have a quite la…”
Persson: Go-to-market alignment requires dedicated marketing counterparts for every sales VP
“So if I look at the sales leadership team, right, I'll make sure we have the VPs under CRO. I have a counterpart, right, on the marketing side that is fully aligned with that individual. So it's so important to have those kind of relationships built at every k…”
Persson: AI cuts Snowflake media team's scriptwriting time by 90%
“We have our own TV channel, Data Cloud Now. For them, they have seen that they're saving 90% in terms of Time savings for creating their scripts and preparing for interviews and everything.”
Persson: Snowflake internal agents run on Cortex with Anthropic and OpenAI
“These are proprietary models based, you know, using Snowflake. Cortex, and then we're using various large language models to build these agents. That could be, you know, it could be anthropic, you know, it could be, you know, OpenAI, you know, and other models…”
Persson: Snowflake consolidated separate GTM data teams into one central AI team
“A year ago, we had all, we all had our own. Intelligence and data teams, right? We had one within sales. There was one in marketing. Everyone has their own, but also we saw that there were some duplication of work there as well. There were some specific compet…”
Persson: Snowflake's next growth wave relies on AI multi-product adoption
“For us now, our growth next is really coming from multi-product
Adoption.
So that's what we are really focused on.
And of course, AI is a big part of that.
So it's our AI offering is, of course, growth opportunities for us.
Also, we're really very focused in t…”
Persson: Snowflake enforces a three-day in-office hybrid work policy
“We're
In, in hybrid model, everyone is in the office three days a week”
Persson: Snowflake employs 300 SDRs and hires 200 annually across cohorts
“So we have about 300 SDRs and they are in seats for 15 months. Then they move into inside cells, which means that we're hiring 200 SDRs every year. So we have 10 different cohorts in our cells development academy joining every month essentially.”