Technical Success Account Manager

Technical Success Account Manager

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

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About The Job

As a Technical Success Account Manager (TSAM), you will serve as a strategic technical leader aligned with Google Cloud’s most critical customers. You are responsible for driving sustained platform health, achieving technical excellence, and ensuring stability for key business critical workloads running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The TSAM serves as the customer’s trusted technical advisor, translating complex business objectives into excellence technical governance and modern, resilient cloud architectural strategies. You will advocate adoption of industry best practices and act as the primary point of accountability for resolving platform challenges and proactive risk mitigation, to the satisfaction of executive stakeholders.

In this role, you will forge strong executive relationships, advocating the implementation of Google Cloud architecture standards, elevating platform stability, and establishing technical excellence across the customer’s GCP footprint, through a programmatic approach. You will serve as the internal customer advocate, translating their strategic needs into actionable feedback for Google Cloud’s Product and Engineering teams, ensuring continuous service improvement and feature development.

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 $168,000-$249,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role.
• Experience with core cloud computing concepts and enterprise architecture principles, (e.g., networking, compute, storage, IT security, database systems, application development, operational frameworks).
• Experience presenting to technical and executive stakeholders (e.g., explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences).
• Experience supporting customers in cloud operations domains (e.g., launch/capacity planning, product release management, technical support, escalation management procedures).

Preferred qualifications:

• Technical professional certifications.
• MBA or Master's degree in a Management, Technical, or Engineering field.
• Experience leading technical governance activities, such as establishing or actively participating in Architecture Review Boards (ARBs), or developing reference architectures and reusable patterns for an enterprise organization.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and lead technical governance, focusing on platform health metrics and enterprise readiness planning.
• Provide technical guidance and advocate the adoption of Google Cloud architecture and best practices via in-depth search and workshops.
• Drive platform stability and excellence through deep architectural health assessments.
• Serve as the strategic technical advisor to address and resolve critical reliability concerns, advising on and guiding the architecture of highly, scalable, and resilient workloads.
• Act as the internal customer advocate, translating technical obstacles to influence GCP product roadmaps.
• Own workload success, stabilization, and ongoing optimization to ensure sustained business value.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .

Key skills/competency:

• Cloud Computing
• Enterprise Architecture
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Technical Governance
• Customer Advocacy
• Platform Stability
• Escalation Management
• Solution Architecture
• Business Value Optimization
• Stakeholder Management