Develop and implement sales strategies to surpass business goals and build trusted, consultative relationships with customers. Leverage emerging technology trends, market analysis, and knowledge of cloud solutions to showcase how Google Cloud can transform customers' business.
Manage and track the sales pipeline, from lead to close, ensuring health and accurate forecasting for clear visibility into expected outcomes.
Manage complex, multi-year contracts and formulate persuasive proposals that illustrate clear return on investment through customer business cases and comprehensive deployment plans.
Mobilize internal experts (Customer Engineering, Partner, Post-Sales) and external partners at the right time to drive consumption and deliver a seamless customer experience.
Lead prospecting and acquisition of new logos, creating and building customer relationships from scratch, and establishing as a trusted advisor on their long-term technology and business decisions.
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of experience in quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or consultative account management at a B2B software company.
Experience engaging and building relationships with internal teams and customer stakeholders.
Experience prospecting, or building customer relationships from scratch.
Experience managing the full business cycle (e.g., pipeline management, forecasting, reporting) and managing commercial negotiations and agreements.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience with consultative selling to executives, asking insightful, visionary questions, presenting future-forward proposals, and building multi-year account strategies and plans.
Experience qualifying leads and presenting the value proposition of cloud, data, and AI technologies against customer business opportunities and challenges and showcasing current technology trends and Google Cloud differentiators.
Excitement for building Greenfield territories; experience acquiring new logos at scale and securing foundational workload(s) to accelerate consumption revenue.
Experience with agreement structuring, negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements, and supporting multi-year engagements.
Experience leading cross-functional teams and partners in project implementation and negotiation.
Demonstrated business and financial acumen.
