Sales Specialist, Business Application Platform, Google Cloud

Google; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Sales Specialist for the Business Application Platform to drive API and integration growth with enterprise customers in Australia. You will lead multi-stakeholder deals, demonstrate value, and map customer needs to Google Cloud capabilities.

You will build trusted relationships, guide complex sales cycles, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to secure outcomes. A Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of enterprise software sales experience are preferred.

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 Software as a Service (SaaS), API management, middleware, application integration, mobile applications, or similar technology solutions to clients.

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 to develop go-to-market strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, close agreements, advocate for the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.

Skills

SaaS sales

API management

Middleware

Application integration

Cloud sales

Complex deals

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Sales Specialist, Business Application Platform, Google Cloud

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.

• 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.
  

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.

Minimum 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 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.

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.

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.