AI Sales Specialist II, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience promoting IT business solutions and executing a territory sales strategy.
• Experience partnering with technical staff to build business cases and implementation plans.
• Experience identifying use cases to solve customer issues.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with and managing partners in complex implementation projects, including global system integrators and packaged software vendors.
• Experience in promoting the AI technology stack.
• Experience working with product teams and an understanding of how to embed technology into the product set.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud and Google Cloud AI offerings.
• Ability to connect AI/ML with business value and engage executive stakeholders as an advisor and thought leader.
• Ability to drive business growth across a broad set of industry-specific AI/ML use 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.

As an AI Sales Specialist, you will be responsible for growing our AI business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. You will develop relationships with external customer stakeholders, identifying innovative ways to multiply the impact of the team. You will partner with internal Google Cloud Platform (GCP) sales teams to grow their AI businesses and drive overall value for GCP.

Responsibilities

• Calibrate the business against the objectives and key results. Forecast and report the state of the business for the territory.
• Build and maintain executive relationships with customers as the AI subject matter expert, influence long-term direction for the new and existing customers as well as the Google Cloud Field Sales Representatives (FSRs) and Customer Engineers (CEs).
• Assist customers in identifying AI use cases suitable for Google Cloud AI products and solutions. Articulate key solution differentiators and the measurable business impact.
• Develop and execute account plans, including a broader enterprise plan across key verticals.
• Work with Google Account and Technical teams to develop and drive pipelines, and provide expertise. Execute Go-To-Market (GTM) business plays and related efforts with the Cloud teams and GCP partners.