Customer Engineer, Startups, West, Google Cloud
About the job
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- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role
- Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms
- Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders
- Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms
- Experience with security concepts such as encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, and penetration testing
- Experience prospecting, and building and maintaining new customer relationships from scratch, with excitement for building out Greenfield territories
- Experience working with, and passion for, the startup ecosystem
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
- Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
- Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
- Experience with security concepts such as encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, and penetration testing.
- Experience prospecting, and building and maintaining new customer relationships from scratch, with excitement for building out Greenfield territories.
- Experience working with, and passion for, the startup ecosystem.
About the job
When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.
Google Cloud empowers startups to address critical needs in scaling, growth, and global expansion, while offering advanced technologies that drive differentiation, customer acquisition, and business growth acceleration.
As a Customer Engineer, you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to customers across the startup ecosystem. You will help prospective and existing customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve their business challenges, engage in proofs of concepts, and troubleshoot any technical questions and roadblocks. You will understand customers' business and technical requirements, and present solutions on Google Cloud. You will focus on customer opportunities as a technical generalist, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics, and more.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,000-$180,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
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Responsibilities
- Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop the strategy to resolve technical blockers.
- Support the technical relationship with customers, including technology advocacy, supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and partnering with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to Google Cloud.
- Work with Google Cloud products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer and partner environments.
- Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure needed to implement a complete solution on Google Cloud.
- Lead prospecting and acquisition of new logos, creating and building customer relationships, and acting as a trusted advisor on their long-term technology and business decisions.
About The Company
A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
