Consulting Account Lead, Retail, Google Cloud Consulting - Google : Job Details

Seattle, WA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in consulting, IT services, or other relevant field.
• Experience with IT infrastructure or cloud-native applications development.
• Experience leading cloud migrations, digital implementations, or managing service operations for organizations.

• Advanced degree in a Management, Technical, or Engineering field.
• 15 years of experience in customer-facing roles.
• Experience leading large enterprise organizations through a people, process, and technology transformation from building and operating legacy, on-premise software to running as a digital native business in the public cloud.
• Experience with data center migration strategies, collaborating with channel partners and systems integrators.
• Experience helping customers decide whether to make investments in new technologies and projects based on expected value and return on investment (ROI).
• Knowledge of the Google Cloud ecosystem.

The Google Cloud Consulting (GCC) team helps customers transform their IT organizations to build and operate modern, cloud-native applications using Google Cloud's products and services and ensure that customers are able to maximize their investments.

In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to Google Cloud's largest customers by enabling them to use Google Cloud products to achieve their business goals. You will partner with customers to develop cloud success plans, organizational, programmatic, and technical strategies to meet the business and stakeholder goals. You will work with customers to remove organizational and technical barriers and identify opportunities to help customers expand the use of Google Cloud products. You will recommend best practices relevant to the industry and organizational changes to accelerate the onboarding and migration plans.

You will lead the adoption of Google Cloud, guiding customers through the people, process, and technology facets of the cloud transformation journey. You will work across customer-facing teams to ensure that a customer's experience on Google Cloud exceeds expectations. You will understand the customer's industry and business goals and regularly engage with executive stakeholders across a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team to ensure Google is helping them achieve these goals.

In this role, you will be expected to be on the customer site approximately 50% of the time as needed.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $173,000-$246,000 + 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.

• Drive the successful adoption and onboarding of Google Cloud at key organizations to help customers realize the business value of our partnership and offerings.
• Create value for customers by partnering to define success and building a joint plan with identified objectives, stakeholders, milestones, risks, and metrics needed to achieve the goals.
• Form relationships with stakeholders (e.g., C-Suite and IT team) to understand customer's business within the industry and develop tactical roadmaps.
• Guide IT and business executives through the organizational changes needed to unlock the full value of the cloud, and help them staff, train, and align the people and partners to deliver on the cloud transformation.
• Partner with customer-facing account teams and executives from across Google to develop tactical and technical plans that help customers achieve their business and cloud consumption goals.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law.

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.