Sales Specialist, Business Application Platform, Google Cloud

Google LLC; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Sales Specialist for the Business Application Platform to grow our API and integration business by building and expanding relationships with large enterprises in Australia. You will articulate how API modernization creates business value and guide customers through complex sales cycles.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, demonstrate product capabilities, and shape strategic opportunities while partnering with our ecosystem to drive sustained growth across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space.
• Experience selling SaaS, API management, middleware, application integration, mobile apps, or similar tech solutions to clients.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple customers and opportunities, map their tech footprint, and help scale AI-modernized workloads.
• Build relationships as a trusted advisor, identify use cases, and influence long-term account strategy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop GTM plans, drive pipeline, and close deals.

Skills

SaaS sales

API management

Middleware

API integration

Enterprise sales

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

APIM

API Security

API Integration

Job description

Sales Specialist, Business Application Platform, Google Cloud

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 12 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space.
  
• Experience selling Software as a Service (SaaS), API management, middleware, application integration, mobile applications, or similar technology solutions to clients.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based sales activity within complex sales cycles, including qualifying high value accounts and leveraging our partner ecosystem.
  
• Experience quickly learning new products and solutions and identifying how they can provide value to a prospective customer.
  
• Experience achieving strategic goals and delivering outcomes across verticals including Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI).
  
• Knowledge of market trends and expertise in products, and solutions in Cloud and API Management (APIM), API Security, and API Integration.
  

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Sales Specialist for the Business Application Platform (BAP) in Google Cloud, you will help us grow our API and Integration business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. In this role, you will work with customers to deliver true business value, demonstrate product functionality, and provide a comprehensive overview of key business use cases. You will guide enterprises through complex API modernization and transformation initiatives, positioning our platform as a secure AI gateway and the foundational layer for agent governance. You will lead day-to-day relationships with cross-functional team members and external customer stakeholders, leading with empathy, while identifying innovative ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for Google Cloud.

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.

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Sales Specialist for the Business Application Platform (BAP) in Google Cloud, you will help us grow our API and Integration business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. In this role, you will work with customers to deliver true business value, demonstrate product functionality, and provide a comprehensive overview of key business use cases. You will guide enterprises through complex API modernization and transformation initiatives, positioning our platform as a secure AI gateway and the foundational layer for agent governance. You will lead day-to-day relationships with cross-functional team members and external customer stakeholders, leading with empathy, while identifying innovative ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for Google Cloud.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer’s technology footprint, enterprise strategy, and cloud growth plans, while helping them scale and secure AI-modernized workloads.
• Build relationships with customers as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, managing complex business cycles, identifying solution use cases, and influencing long-term strategic direction of accounts.
• Work with Google accounts and cross-functional teams (e.g., Customer Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Channels) to develop go-to-market strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, close agreements, advocate for the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.

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