Sales Specialist, Go To Market Database, Google Cloud

4 Months ago • 10 Years +

Business Development

Job Description

As a Sales Specialist, you will help Google Cloud grow its Go To Market (GTM) Database business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. You'll work with customers to deliver 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 business plays, manage campaigns, and provide feedback to Product and Global Solutions teams. You will shape customers' cloud and database strategy and enable digital transformation. Responsibilities include building customer relationships, meeting quotas, collaborating with cross-functional teams, understanding customer technology footprints and strategies, and managing database workloads.

Good To Have:

Experience supporting executive relationships
Developing new territories/accounts
Prioritizing and planning sales activities
Experience working with internal/external teams

Must Have:

10+ years sales experience in enterprise software/cloud
Experience selling databases or data management technologies
Meeting quotas and exceeding strategic goals
Building and maintaining strong customer relationships
Collaborating with cross-functional teams

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Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

Experience carrying and exceeding strategic business goals in a sales role.
Experience supporting executive relationships, and developing new territories/accounts, while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.
Experience prioritizing and planning sales activity and transformation strategies within complex sales cycles aligned to Data and Analytics.
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.

About the job

As a Sales Specialist, you will help us grow our Go To Market (GTM) Database 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 business plays, manage campaigns, and provide feedback to Product and Global Solutions teams to inform our product solutions roadmap. You will shape customers' cloud and database 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.

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

Build relationships with customers as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, managing complex business cycles, identifying solution use cases, and influencing long-term strategic direction of accounts.
Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic 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 perspective of the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.
Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, competitors, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.
Manage Databases workloads within assigned solutions and regions.