AI Sales Specialist, Google Cloud

Job Description Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. - 12 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space. - Experience leading and scaling teams in a cloud-based PaaS and SaaS environment. - Experience in working with engineers and customer technical leads to build business cases and accompanying plans for implementation. - Experience selling business intelligence and Cloud technologies to clients. Preferred qualifications: - Experience carrying and exceeding strategic business goals in a sales role. - Experience supporting long-term executive relationships, and developing new territories/accounts while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion. - Experience prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based sales activity within complex business cycles, including qualifying high value accounts and leveraging our partner ecosystem. - Experience working with internal/external teams, including account teams, technical leads, procurement, and legal, to inventory existing software estate, build business cases for transformation with implementation plans, and close agreements. - Knowledge of market trends, products, and solutions (including foundational technical understanding) of Cloud and AI. About The Job The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners. As an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sales Specialist, you will help us grow our AI business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. In this role, you will work with customers to deliver true business value, demonstrate product functionality, and provide a comprehensive overview of key business use cases. You will be working with product teams to help our customers build new products leveraging our AI solutions. You will lead day-to-day relationships with cross-functional team members and external customers, leading with empathy, while identifying innovative ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for Google Cloud. It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud's Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You'll be leveraging Google's brand credibilitya legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We'll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We're a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud erathe market is yours. Responsibilities - Build relationships with customers as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, managing complex business cycles, identifying solution use cases, and influencing long-term strategic direction of accounts. - Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting territory's business. - Work with Google accounts and cross-functional teams (e.g. Customer Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Channels) to develop go-to-market strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, close agreements, understand the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience. - Develop and execute strategic account plans informed by our responsible AI framework across an assigned territory or market. - Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understand each customer's technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, performers, and how they can transform their business using our technologies. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .