Pursuit Lead Manager, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in a technical project management or a customer-facing role, interfacing with executive stakeholders, driving IT technical implementations, transformation programs, or other initiatives.
• 5 years of experience in people management.
• Experience supporting enterprise customers in one of the following: Cloud Professional Services, IT consulting, program management.
• Experience mentoring and managing a team.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a management, technical, or engineering field.
• Experience in value consulting, proposal development, and execution with public cloud providers like Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience collaborating with channel partners, systems integrators, and third-parties to deliver and manage implementation of solutions.
• Knowledge in IT operations, database systems, networking, IT security, application development, service architecture, cloud-native application development, hosted services, storage systems, and cyber security.

About the job

As a Pursuit Lead Manager, you will help customers successfully adopt Google Cloud products. You will lead the development of Professional Services, Learning, and Technical Account Manager pitches, strategies, and engagements with our customers to help drive the successful adoption of Google Cloud working alongside our account teams.

In this role, you will build and maintain effective relationships with the Field Sales and Customer Engineering, and Consulting Services teams, to assign, allocate and prioritize Pursuit Lead activities for their customers. You will work with your peer Pursuit Lead managers to share best practices and will place an emphasis on shared success across your teams.

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 $206,000-$302,000 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 for new hire 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.

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 .

Responsibilities

• Activate the Google Cloud Consulting services strategy in the region, overseeing engagement during the pre-sales motion so that customers have service plans that will enable them to achieve business goals with Google Cloud Platform.
• Partner with sales and partner leaders in the region to ensure the regional Pursuit Lead team engages effectively and seamlessly during the pre-sales motion.
• Drive operational excellence in the region, understanding the pipeline dynamics and analytics to drive action plans to ensure plans are hit.
• Oversee the effective completion of the functions core responsibilities, including agreement qualification, service package/BOM design, delivery strategy and approach, agreement sign-off, and contract completion.
• Drive team performance, building analytics strategies and capabilities to monitor pipeline health and identify indicators of action and changes needed to achieve a healthy pipeline, attach, value, and productivity measures.