Data Analytics Sales Specialist II, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 7 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space.
  
• Experience selling data analytics or data management technologies to clients.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience supporting executive relationships, and developing new territories/accounts, while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.
  
• Experience carrying and exceeding business goals in a sales role.
• Experience working with internal/external teams, including account teams, technical leads, procurement, and legal, to inventory existing software estate, build cases for transformation with implementation plans, and close agreements.
  
• Experience prioritizing and planning sales activity and transformation strategies within complex sales cycles aligned to data and analytics.
• Knowledge of trends, products, and solutions in Cloud and data and analytics (BigQuery, Looker, Dataproc, Pub/Sub), including experience with data analytics technology stack.

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 a Data Analytics Sales Specialist, you will help us grow our Data Analytics business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. In this role, you will work with customers to deliver true business value, demonstrate product functionality and provide a comprehensive overview of key business use cases. You will lead day-to-day relationships with cross-functional team members, serving as a solution lead within the sales organization. You will lead go-to-market strategies and sales plays, manage campaigns, and provide feedback to Product and Global Solutions teams to inform our product solutions roadmap. You will shape customers' cloud and Data Analytics strategy and enable digital transformation. You will lead with empathy, while identifying innovative ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for Google Cloud.

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 direction of accounts.
  
• Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed 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 account plans, including a broader enterprise plan across key industries.
  
• Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, participants, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.