Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 years of experience in promoting IT business solutions and executing a territory business strategy.
- Experience partnering with technical staff to build business cases and implementation plans.
- Experience identifying and driving use cases to solve customer problems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working with and managing partners in complex implementation projects including global system integrators and packaged software vendors.
- Experience with promoting the AI technology stack.
Experience working with product teams and an understanding of how to embed our technology into their 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
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 possess the necessary promoting skills to effectively build relationships with both Cloud Field Sales Representatives (FSRs), Customer Engineers (CEs) as well as new and existing customers. You will develop relationships with external customer stakeholders, identifying innovative ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole. You will partner with internal Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Sales teams to grow their AI businesses and drive overall value for GCP. Business cycles will include a combination of productivity use cases, as well as working with product teams to help our customers build new products leveraging our AI.
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 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 your 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, understanding each customer's technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, competitors, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.
