AI Deployment Lead — Enterprise Cloud

Google; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 183,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services seeks a Technical Deployment Lead to own AI deployment directions with strategic customers, translating business goals into technical roadmaps and leading cross-functional execution. You will work directly with enterprise clients to shape deployment strategies, tooling, and governance while ensuring measurable business outcomes.

This role demands executive presence, platform engineering depth, and the ability to discuss system architectures with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in product management, systems or solution architecture, software/platform engineering, or technical leadership in customer-facing roles.
• Experience designing end-to-end AI systems (e.g., RAG, vector databases, and API integrations) and defining AI product/workflow specifications.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams, driving technical deployments, and managing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define the AI deployment goal with strategic customers, qualify opportunities, and drive the end-to-end lifecycle to deliver key business outcomes.
• Translate business objectives into technical delivery plans, orchestrating day-to-day execution for forward-deployment and implementation teams.
• Lead high-pressure alignment sessions with customer executives to navigate technical trade-offs, cost vectors, scope, and project risks.
• Transit frontier products to successful production, driving core metrics, workflow automation, and high user adoption, while traveling up to 30% for engagements.
• Extract field learnings to build repeatable templates and playbooks, translating on-the-ground insights into actionable feature requests for engineering teams.

Skills

AI system design

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Technical deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

7 years of experience in product management, systems or solution architecture, software/platform engineering, or technical leadership in customer-facing roles

Job description

Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services seeks a Technical Deployment Lead to own AI deployment directions with strategic customers, translating business goals into technical roadmaps and leading cross-functional execution. You will work directly with enterprise clients to shape deployment strategies, tooling, and governance while ensuring measurable business outcomes.

This role demands executive presence, platform engineering depth, and the ability to discuss system architectures with