Google

Head of Sovereign, Google Cloud

Google$182K — $186K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in quota-carrying cloud or software sales at a B2B software company.
  • Experience working with public sector market entities across Canada.
  • Proven relationship-building skills with internal teams and customer stakeholders.
  • Track record in managing the full sales cycle and overseeing commercial negotiations and agreements.
  • Active or able to obtain a Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Drive revenue growth by crafting and executing sales strategies and building consultative relationships.
  • Manage the sales pipeline diligently from lead to close, ensuring accurate forecasting.
  • Negotiate multi-year contracts while developing compelling proposals that highlight ROI.
  • Mobilize both internal experts and external partners effectively to enhance customer experience.

Benefits

  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools for personal and professional development.
  • Collaborative work environment focused on innovative solutions.
  • Opportunities for career growth within a rapidly expanding cloud services sector.
  • Employee resource programs promoting diversity and inclusion.
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or consultative account management at a Business-to-Business (B2B) software company.
  • Experience working with the public sector market (e.g., federal government/defence and security entities) across Canada.
  • Experience engaging and building relationships with a wide range of internal teams and customer stakeholders.
  • Experience managing the full sales cycle (e.g., pipeline management, forecasting, reporting) and managing commercial negotiations and agreements.
  • Active, or the ability to obtain, a Secret security clearance.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience with consultative selling to the public sector, asking questions, presenting proposals, and building multi-year account strategies.
  • Experience qualifying leads and presenting the value proposition against customers' business opportunities and showcasing current technology trends and Google Cloud differentiators.
  • Experience expanding accounts, securing customers, and accelerating revenue and leading cross-functional teams and partners to co-sell and win.
  • Experience with agreement structuring, negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements, and supporting multi-year engagements.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams and partners in project implementation and negotiation.
  • Experience in the public sector. Ability to communicate in English and French fluently for regional support.


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 Key Account Executive (KAE) for the Public Sector, you will serve as a partner to Public Sector accounts related to different public entities across Ottawa. You will manage account growth strategies, engaging customers with consultative value selling methodology. You will drive long-term revenue growth by gaining an understanding of customers critical issues and aligning them with Google Cloud's portfolio of solutions. You will lead the end-to-end sales process, from initiating customer conversations to orchestrating internal and external teams to deliver revenue commitments and increased consumption. You will advocate the innovative power of 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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Canada: $182000 - $186000 (CAD) 150% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Drive revenue growth by developing and implementing sales strategies, building trusted consultative relationships, and leveraging emerging technology trends, market analysis, and cloud solution expertise to demonstrate Google Cloud's transformative value to customers.
  • Manage and track the sales pipeline, from lead to close, ensuring health and accurate forecasting for clear visibility into expected outcomes.
  • Negotiate multi-year contracts and formulate persuasive proposals that illustrate clear return on investment through customer business cases and comprehensive deployment plans.
  • Mobilize internal experts (Customer Developing, Partner, Post-Sales) and external partners at the right time to drive consumption and deliver a seamless customer experience.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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Revenue
$182.5 billion
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