Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space.
- People management experience within a quota-carrying team.
- Experience leading and scaling teams in a cloud-based PaaS and SaaS environment.
- Experience selling business intelligence and cloud technologies to clients.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience selling into the Public Sector.
-
Experience working with and managing partners in complex implementation projects including global system integrators and packaged software vendors.
- Experience working in the Sub-Saharan African market or markets.
- Experience working with product teams and an understanding of how to embed our technology into their product set.
- Familiarity with Google Cloud and Google Cloud AI offerings.
About the job
As the Head of AI Go-To-Market (GTM), you will lead a small team of AI Sales Specialists covering key markets and verticals including Sub-Saharan Africa, Public Sector across UK&I, Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals.
You will build relationships with internal partners and with external customer stakeholders, identifying innovative ways to multiply the impact of the team as a whole.
In this role, you will also empower leading organizations to embrace the transformative power of AI by guiding them through their adoption of Google Cloud's AI solutions. By understanding their unique customers needs, you will demonstrate how our AI-driven tools can revolutionize their operations, enhancing productivity, mobility, and collaboration. You will collaborate with sales teams, providing expert guidance on our AI capabilities, and act as a liaison with product management and engineering, ensuring customer feedback shapes the evolution of Google Cloud's AI offerings. Your insights into the rapidly evolving AI landscape will be instrumental in managing innovation Google Cloud's leadership in the AI-driven future of work.
It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.
As the Head of AI Go-To-Market (GTM), you will lead a small team of AI Sales Specialists covering key markets and verticals including Sub-Saharan Africa, Public Sector across UK&I, Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals.
In this role, you will also empower leading organizations to embrace the transformative power of AI by guiding them through their adoption of Google Cloud's AI solutions. By understanding their unique customers needs, you will demonstrate how our AI-driven tools can revolutionize their operations, enhancing productivity, mobility, and collaboration. You will collaborate with sales teams, providing expert guidance on our AI capabilities, and act as a liaison with product management and engineering, ensuring customer feedback shapes the evolution of Google Cloud's AI offerings. Your insights into the rapidly evolving AI landscape will be instrumental in managing innovation Google Cloud's leadership in the AI-driven future of work.
Responsibilities
- Coach the team to identify, advance, and win opportunities and AI bookings, manage business pipelines, and accelerate business growth.
- Build and maintain executive relationships with customers as the AI subject matter expert together with your team, and influence long-term direction for new and existing customers.
- Work cross-functionally with Google Cloud Field Sales Representatives (FSR), Customer Engineer (CE) teams, and Field Solution Architects (FSA) to ensure AI adoption, customer satisfaction and business growth.
- Support your team to assist customers in identifying AI use cases suitable for Google Cloud AI products and solutions, ensure development and a path to production. Articulate key solution differentiators and the measurable business impact.
- Execute Go-To-Market business strategy and related efforts with the Google Cloud teams and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) partners.
