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Strategic Account Executive, Google Cloud Platform

Strategic Account Executive, Google Cloud Platform

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Business Development • Undisclosed

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Job Description

The Strategic Account Executive at Google Cloud Platform will manage the growth strategy for enterprise accounts. This involves building executive relationships, becoming a trusted advisor, and understanding customers' business needs deeply. Responsibilities include managing complex business cycles, presenting to C-level executives, negotiating terms, and driving business development. The role requires leading account strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams and Google Partners to maximize business impact. Experience in cloud or software sales and account management is essential, along with expertise in selling cloud solutions and aligning them with business outcomes.

Must have:

10+ years quota-carrying cloud/software sales experience
Experience selling cloud solutions across multiple industries
Ability to build executive relationships and influence technology decisions
Expertise in managing complex business cycles and negotiations
Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills

Good to have:

Experience growing existing customer base and acquiring new logos
Experience working with Customer Engineers and technical leads
Experience defining migration plans and building business cases

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of experience with quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or account management at a B2B software company.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience selling Cloud Solutions, Infrastructure Software, Databases, Analytic Tools, or Applications Software across multiple industries, aligning solutions to drive business outcomes.
Experience growing existing customer base and acquiring new logos at scale, to increase spend and accelerate consumption business.
Experience working with, and leading, cross-functional teams and partners in implementations and negotiations.
Experience working with Customer Engineers and customers' technical leads to inventory software estate, define migration plans, and build migration business cases.

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.

In this role, you will manage the growth strategy for enterprise accounts. You’ll leverage experience engaging with executives to build on existing relationships, establish relationships in new areas, and act as a business partner to understand our customer's challenges and goals. You will advocate the innovative power of our products and solutions to make organizations more productive, collaborative, and mobile.

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

Build executive relationships with enterprise customers to influence their long-term technology and business decisions. Add value as a trusted advisor.
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 engaged landscape.
Manage complex business 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.
Lead account strategy to develop business growth opportunities, working cross-functionally with multiple teams and Google Partners, to maximize business impact within enterprise customers.

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