Google

Key Account Executive IV, Retail Tech, Google Cloud

Google$182K — $187K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
  • 10 years of quota-carrying cloud/software sales or account management experience.
  • Experience in or supporting technology companies essential.
  • Proven ability to build relationships with diverse internal teams and customers.
  • Skilled in managing the full sales cycle including forecasting and reporting.
  • Experience selling to enterprise accounts at the C-level.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute sales strategies to exceed growth targets and build strong customer relationships.
  • Manage sales pipeline effectively, ensuring accurate forecasting and outcome visibility.
  • Handle multi-year agreements, creating proposals that demonstrate clear ROI for customers.
  • Mobilize internal experts and partners at crucial points to enhance customer experience.
  • Oversee global accounts with multiple opportunities, acting as the primary customer contact.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including dental and vision plan options.
  • Generous paid time off policy to support work-life balance.
  • 401(k) plan with company match to support retirement savings.
  • Continuous education and professional development opportunities.
  • Flexible work arrangements to promote a diverse workforce.
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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 B2B software company.
  • Experience in, or supporting technology companies.
  • Experience working with 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).
  • Experience selling to enterprise accounts, selling a portfolio of products or solutions at the C-level.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience with consultative selling to executives in the technology and retail domain, asking insightful, visionary questions, presenting future-forward proposals, and building multi-year account strategies and plans.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams and partners in project implementation and negotiation.
  • Experience with agreement structuring, negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements, and supporting multi-year engagements.
  • Experience qualifying leads and presenting the value proposition of cloud, data, and AI technologies against customers' strategic business opportunities and issues.
  • Experience showcasing current technology trends and Google Cloud differentiators.
  • Experience supporting large enterprise organizations, expanding existing accounts, securing new customers, and accelerating consumption business growth.


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) on the Canada team, you will serve as the executive selling to the most strategic enterprises in Google Cloud. You will leverage existing relationships with CEOs and C-level executives, developing new relationships with business unit leaders to understand their unique company issues and to influence their perspective of Google solutions. You will be a strategic partner to customers, leveraging consultative value selling methodology to drive long-term revenue growth. You will do this with a deep industry understanding, communicating the business value of Google while driving shareholder value. You will lead the 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 our 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 - $187000 (CAD) 150% bonus target bonus equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement sales strategies to surpass business growth targets and build trusted, consultative relationships with customers. Leverage emerging technology trends, market analysis, and knowledge of cloud solutions to showcase how Google Cloud can transform customers' business.
  • Manage and track the sales pipeline, from lead to close, ensuring health and accurate forecasting for clear visibility into expected outcomes.
  • Manage multi-year agreements and formulate persuasive proposals that illustrate clear return on investment through customer business cases and comprehensive deployment plans.
  • Mobilize internal experts (Customer Engineering, Partner, Post-Sales) and external partners at the right time to drive consumption and deliver a seamless customer experience.
  • Run and manage global accounts with multiple opportunities across different functions, serving as the primary customer contact for all adoption-related activities.


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
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1998
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