Industry Principal, Life Sciences
Company websitesnowflake.com (Snowflake, opens in new tab)
Base salary $255,600 to $335,475
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York, NY +4 more
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- LocationNew York, NY +4 more
- WorkplaceRemote
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since
All 5 locations
- US-NY-New York
- Raleigh, NC
- US-IL-Chicago-MSO
- Philadelphia, PA
- US-MA-Boston
About this job
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Snowflake is actively seeking a Life Sciences Industry Principal to join our Global Industry Go-to-Market team. This team is made up of subject matter experts that come from the industry. They serve an internal strategy role as well as an external customer-facing role to provide context and establish credibility on how Snowflake can deliver on business use cases and outcomes.
In this role you will be responsible for working with our field sales teams and customer executives to develop and close new business for targeted accounts within the Life Sciences sub-vertical. You will act as a visionary and an innovative industry expert as it pertains to data, analytics and AI. You will have the opportunity to apply your successful track record of building, overseeing, and developing enterprise solution go-to-market strategies.
RESPONSIBILITIES :
Provide industry experience and insight within our most strategic life sciences accounts developing account strategies, building trusted relationships, and presenting Snowflake’s vision for the industry to a C-level audience
Build customer-facing industry content
Build strategic relationships with the life sciences vertical ecosystem including customers, partners, and data providers
Partner with the industry architect and industry marketing teams to develop and drive a cohesive industry go-to-market strategy
Collaborate to further strengthen the life science industry’s enablement strategy within the organization, including leadership of “industry communities of practice”
Collaborate with our industry architect teams to prioritize and deliver industry-specific capabilities in future product roadmaps and drive Snowflake’s product vision into the market
Partner with marketing teams to drive industry awareness and pipeline development via thought leadership presentations at industry conferences and trade shows
Oversee account prioritization, solution and sales play creation to help educate and enable sales, sales engineers, pre-sales and customer success teams
Collaborate with partner and alliance teams to identify, recruit, and enable industry-specific system integrators and ISV partners
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :
15+ years in life sciences (consulting or directly with industry)
Leadership experience in driving programs related to Data, Analytics and AI
Experience leading change and influencing corporate strategy, comfortable in C-level business environments with an ability to quickly establish credibility with senior leadership
Excellent communication & presentation skills
Undergraduate degree, advanced degree preferred
The ability to travel
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($255,600) is above 96% of the 3,055 Sales roles nationwide listed on this site. Their median floor is $142,800; the middle half runs from $120,000 to $170,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.
This listingIndustry Principal, Life Sciences$255,600 to $335,475
Senior Director, WW Deal Desk$260,000 to $341,200
Principal Engineer$250K to $380K
Principal Software Engineer - Performance Engineering (Cloud Infrastructure)$264,000 to $379,500
Principal Software Engineer - Observability$264,000 to $379,500
Senior Manager - AI for Engineering Systems$264,000 to $379,500
Tech Lead Manager - SUT Team$264,000 to $379,500
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Industry Principal, Life Sciences (this listing) | $255,600 - $335,475 |
| Senior Director, WW Deal Desk | $260,000 - $341,200 |
| Principal Engineer | $250K - $380K |
| Principal Software Engineer - Performance Engineering (Cloud Infrastructure) | $264,000 - $379,500 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Observability | $264,000 - $379,500 |
| Senior Manager - AI for Engineering Systems | $264,000 - $379,500 |
| Tech Lead Manager - SUT Team | $264,000 - $379,500 |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-10-14
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Multiple locations (5) (remote)
USD 255,600 – 335,475 · 1 YEAR · Salary
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