Technical Account Manager, Google Cloud Consulting

Technical Account Manager, Google Cloud Consulting

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As a Technical Account Manager, you will help customers adopt Google Cloud products. You will lead the adoption of Google Cloud at organizations, guiding them through the technical facets of their Google Cloud transformation journey. You will manage the delivery of Cloud Consulting engagements to drive customer adoption of Google Cloud services. In this role, you will regularly engage with various stakeholder groups, including leadership of enterprises and a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team.

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in a customer-facing role working with stakeholders, driving customer technical implementations or transformation programs.
• Experience supporting customers in cloud operations (e.g., launch or capacity planning, product release management), technical support, escalation management, or IT consulting.
• Ability to communicate in English and one European language fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Master’s degree in a Management, Technical, or Engineering field.
• Experience in translating business requirements into technological solutions.
• Experience in application or workload migration to public cloud providers.
• Experience collaborating with teams, groups, business units, channel partners, systems integrators, and third-party developers to deliver solutions.
• Understanding of IT operations, database systems, networking, IT security, application development, service architecture, cloud-native application development, hosted services, storage systems, or content delivery networks.
• Excellent communication, presentation, problem-solving, and client management skills.

Responsibilities

• Accelerate customer adoption of Google Cloud by leading the implementation journey. Provide technical guidance and manage timelines, milestones, migration goal and business transformation strategies.
• Advocate for customer needs in order to overcome adoption blockers and drive new feature development. Lead across multiple work streams and teams to maintain customer momentum.
• Develop relationships with stakeholders to understand customer’s business, develop road maps, and lead quarterly business reviews and executive sessions to understand business and technical needs.
• Plan for customer events and launches, partnering with Support, Engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers to ensure customer success, and work with customers and Support to guide issues/escalations to resolution.
• Develop best practices and assets based on learnings from customer engagements to support initiatives to scale through partners and accelerate Google Cloud adoption.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Adoption
• Technical Implementation
• Customer Relationship Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Project Management
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• IT Consulting
• Problem Solving
• Business Transformation
• Cloud Operations