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 in the Public sector and startups and in prospecting, or building customer relationships from scratch.
* Ability to communicate in English and German fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
Preferred qualifications:
* Experience promoting Cloud Solutions, Infrastructure Software, Databases, Analytic Tools, or Applications Software to Startups or Digital Native organizations, aligning solutions to drive business outcomes.
* Experience prospecting, and building new customer relationships, for building Greenfield territories and experience in acquiring new logos at scale and securing foundational workloads to accelerate consumption business.
* Experience working with customer engineers and technical leads to inventory software estate, define migration plans, and build migration business cases.
* Experience with commercial and legal negotiations, working with Procurement, Legal, and Business teams.
* Experience working with, and leading, cross-functional teams and partners in implementations and negotiations.
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.
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 engaged landscape.
* Lead account strategy to develop business growth opportunities, working cross-functionally with multiple teams and Google Partners, to maximize business impact within startup customers.
* 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.
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 .