Help to scope security related feature enhancements on behalf of customers to work with Product Management and Engineering on ways to enhance requirements for the local market
Help drive Snowflake adoption by advising customers and engineering teams on how to build secure Korea-compliant Data and AI architectures, ensuring Snowflake implementations respect strict localization and regional access controls
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support in order to drive customer security feature adoption
Partner with our Product Marketing team to define and support Snowflake's AI and Data Cloud posture and Security DataLake workload awareness and pipeline building via marketing initiatives including conferences, trade shows, and events
Work and collaborate with other Field CTO members in areas as a security expert collaborating with Enterprise AI, Gen AI, Data Engineering and Applications teams at Snowflake
Share knowledge with internal and industry communities via webinars & conferences
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE
Mandatory Technical Experience & Language Proficiency (Required)
Verified Industry Experience: 7-10+ years of hands-on information security experience, with at least 5+ years focused squarely on cloud security architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP, or domestic Korean CSPs like Naver Cloud/NHN)
Mandatory Korean & English Fluency: Native or professional business fluency in written and spoken Korean is strictly required for regulatory filings, KISA/FSI communications, and complex technical documentation. Professional-level English is required for global HQ collaboration
10+ years of industry, customer-facing, and hands-on implementation experience with a core focus on data concepts, privacy, governance, networking, infosec and security technologies
Outstanding skills in presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
Experience selling enterprise SaaS software and working in the local South Korean market
Korea-Specific Infrastructure Design: Proven experience designing and managing physical and logical network separation architecture and data localization/residency compliance for highly regulated industries
Expertise and in-depth working knowledge and hands-on experience in cloud platforms (at least one of the following: AWS, Azure, GCP), and its corresponding security, data encryption, and networking architecture and technologies
Cloud Infrastructure & Networking: Advanced understanding of IAM/RBAC, OAuth, identity governance (SCIM), TCP/IP, IP routing, DNS, proxies, and CSP private networking (NAT, Firewalls, TLS, PrivateLink)
Advanced Identity & AI Security: Practical exposure to modern security vectors, including AI Security principles and emerging non-human identity frameworks like Agentic Identity (securing AI agents, orchestrators, and LLM data pipelines)
Audit Lifecycle Management: Experience executing gap assessments, control implementations, evidence collection, and managing annual surveillance/reassessment cycles
Ability to build out demos, configure CSP environments, and test use cases on the Snowflake platform and relevant integrations with CSP services and external security tools
Ability to create security and networking-related reference architectures, security best practices and hardening guides, and articulate them to a customer audience
A demonstrated knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST, CIS, OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK and how to articulate controls and security mechanisms within a Risk Assessment centred approach
Knowledge of ANSI SQL compliant databases and / or data warehousing is preferred
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, presentation and white boarding skills to a large audience, and the ability to successfully communicate security and risk-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
Fair understanding of the culture diversity across Asia Pacific Japan region and flexibility of working with customers and colleagues from multiple APJ time zones
Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems, or related field required. Masters preferred