Data Sales Specialist, Google Cloud

Google LLC; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in India seeks a Share Data Sales Specialist to drive Data Cloud growth. You will lead complex sales cycles, build executive business cases, and partner with data engineers and architects to articulate the value of data analytics, AI, and lakehouse solutions.

You will present BigQuery and related tools, align with cross-functional teams, and shepherd enterprise customers from discovery to close, expanding pipelines and quota attainment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of quota-carrying enterprise sales experience.
• Experience building business cases through workshops or product demos to executives.
• Experience partnering with technical stakeholders (Enterprise Architects, Data Engineers, Data Scientists).
• Experience selling data management, analytics, infrastructure, or AI/ML solutions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic business and growth goals in India.
• Run complex, multi-threaded sales cycles from discovery to ROI business case creation and close.
• Engage business leaders and C-level executives through value-selling and tying Data/AI capabilities to outcomes.
• Align cross-functionally with field sales and partners to execute Data+AI plays and co-sell motions.
• Present modern architectures (BigQuery, Spark, Spanner, AlloyDB) to show unified data foundations powering AI agents.

Skills

Enterprise sales

Quota attainment

Stakeholder engagement

Business case enablement

Data AI fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Share Data Sales Specialist, Google Cloud

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of quota-carrying enterprise sales experience.
• Experience building business cases through workshops or product demos to business executives.
• Experience developing partnerships with technical stakeholders (e.g., Enterprise Architects, Data Engineers, Data Scientists).
• Experience positioning and selling technical solutions in data management, analytics, infrastructure, or AI/ML.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in a sales role selling data analytics or data management technologies to clients.
• Experience positioning and selling streaming solutions, open data lakehouses, and analytics tools (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Spark) against legacy, proprietary deployment environments.
• Experience positioning, selling, or showcasing the commercial value of AI platforms, agent-driven applications, and low-latency, highly scalable operational data services on open data foundations.
• Use agentic or AI tools for customer demos and discussions for show don't tell execution.

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.

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 Data Cloud Sales Specialist, you will help us grow our Data Cloud 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 position Google Cloud's data suite (including BigQuery, Knowledge Catalog, Borderless Lakehouse, etc.) as the premium data intelligence platform for Agentic workflows. You will articulate the unique value of Lakehouse, governance, and semantic cataloging in delivering high-quality, hallucination-free AI Agents, enabling customers to leverage unified data foundations for real-time, AI-driven experiences. You will shape customers' cloud and Agentic Data Cloud strategy and enable digital transformation. You will lead with empathy, while identifying innovative ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive the 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 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

• Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic business and growth goals, and drive net-new greenfield logos and workloads in existing accounts through proactive campaigns.
• Run complex, multi-threaded sales cycles from initial discovery and value hypothesis to Return on Investment (ROI) business case creation and commercial close.
• Engage business leaders, Chief Data Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief AI Officer, through value-selling, tying modern Data and AI capabilities to quantified business outcomes.
• Align cross-functionally with Field Sales Representative (FSRs) and Partners to execute joint Data+AI plays, driving platform standardization and co-sell motions.
• Present modern architectures (BigQuery, Spark, Spanner, AlloyDB) to demonstrate how unified data foundations power high-performance, hallucination-free AI agents.

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