As an Enterprise Account Executive focused on new customer acquisition for enterprise accounts, you will grow Google Cloud’s market share by acquiring new logos and securing foundational workloads to accelerate consumption business growth. You'll lead engagement with diverse enterprise customers, solving their business challenges with Google Cloud solutions. Responsibilities include building relationships across customer levels (developers to C-suite), leading cross-functional teams, leveraging resources (Customer Engineering, Business Development, Partners), managing sales cycles, presenting to C-level executives, negotiating terms, driving business development, forecasting accurately, and achieving strategic goals. You will also need to become an expert on customer businesses, including SaaS portfolios, technology strategies, and competitive landscapes.
Working with Customer Engineers and technical leads
Acquiring new logos at scale
Cross-functional team leadership and partner collaboration
Commercial and legal negotiation experience
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Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
7 years of experience with quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or account management at a B2B software company
Experience prospecting, or building customer relationships from scratch.
Experience with Digital Native Clients
Preferred qualifications:
Experience selling Cloud Solutions, Infrastructure Software, Databases, Analytic Tools, or Applications Software across multiple industries, aligning solutions to drive business outcomes.
Experience working with Customer Engineers and customers' technical leads to inventory software estate, define migration plans, and build migration business cases.
Experience acquiring new logos at scale and securing foundational workload(s) to accelerate consumption business growth.
Experience working with, and leading, cross-functional teams and partners in implementations and negotiations.
Experience with commercial and legal negotiations, working with Procurement, Legal, and Business teams.
Experience cultivating C-level relationships and influencing executives.
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 Enterprise Account Executive focused on new customer acquisition for enterprise accounts, your primary responsibility will be to grow Google Cloud’s market share by acquiring new logos and securing the foundational workload(s) to accelerate their consumption business growth. You will lead the engagement with a diverse group of cross-industry enterprise customers and assist them in solving their business challenges with our solutions. You will be responsible for building meaningful relationships across various levels within the customer, from developers to C-suite executives. Additionally, you will lead a cross-functional team and leverage the right resources, including Customer Engineering, Business Development, cross-functional sellers, and Partners to maximize outcomes.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
Lead prospecting and acquisition of new logos, creating and building customer relationships from scratch, and establishing yourself as a trusted advisor on their long-term technology and business decisions.
Become an expert on the customers' business, including their SaaS product portfolio, technology strategy, strategic growth plans, business drivers, financial structure, customer base, vertical market offering and competitive landscape.
Lead account strategy to develop business growth opportunities, working cross-functionally with multiple teams and Google Partners, to maximize business impact within enterprise customers.
Manage sales cycles, presenting to C-level executives and negotiating terms.
Drive business development, own operational excellence at scale, forecast accurately, and achieve strategic goals by leading customers through the entire business cycle.
A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.