Customer Engineering Manager III, Retail, Google Cloud

Google; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 192,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and more

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days/year

Sick Time: 40 hours/year

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days/year

Job summary

Google Cloud seeks a seasoned Customer Engineering Manager III to lead a team delivering trusted technical guidance and solution architecture for customers. You will partner with Sales to drive go-to-market strategies and cloud adoption, while mentoring engineers to achieve scalable, high-impact outcomes.

You will manage delivery and disrupt blockers across cross-functional teams, ensuring successful workload migrations and demonstrable business value for customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience with technical conversations, demos, prototyping, or workshops with customers.
• Leadership experience (e.g., people management, team lead, mentorship, coaching).

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Customer Engineers focused on culture, talent strategy, and skills development.
• Foster partnerships and provide thought leadership on cloud solutions and expansion opportunities.
• Partner with Sales to define technical go-to-market strategies and delivery plans.
• Balance technical leadership with operational excellence and staffing plans.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to resolve technical roadblocks and drive customer value.

Skills

Leadership experience

Customer-facing

Cloud architecture

Pre-sales knowledge

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Cloud platforms

Containers

Virtualization

Job description

Customer Engineering Manager III, Retail, Google Cloud corporate\_fare Google place Chicago, IL, USA ; Atlanta, GA, USA ; +11 more info\_outline X The application window will be open until at least October 28, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date. This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Chicago, IL, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Addison, TX, USA; Irvine, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Reston, VA, USA; San Diego, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience with technical conversations, demos, prototyping, or workshops with customers.
• Leadership experience (e.g., people management, team lead, mentorship, coaching).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with software life-cycles, building tools, and architecting/developing software for scalable, distributed systems (e.g., data platform, AI/ML, infrastructure).
• Experience as a pre-sales manager or technical customer-facing people manager within a professional services or sales engineering team.
• Experience managing a team through pre-sales processes and career development (e.g., account mapping, quota setting, performance management, managing sensitive information).
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders/executive leaders (e.g., delivering compelling messages by audience, asking strategic questions, leading conversations that drive accelerated value realization and business opportunity).
• Experience driving delivery and consumption plans for complex, cross-pillar cloud solutions.

About the job

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Customer Engineering (CE) Manager, you lead and deploy a team of subject matter experts responsible for working alongside our customers to provide trusted technical and solution advice to accelerate workload migration and remove technical blockers. You will foster a culture of technical ownership and understand the mechanics of architecture, delivery, and consumption across the Google Cloud portfolio.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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $192000 - $267000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Customer Engineers, focusing on team culture, talent strategy, and skills development to deliver successful cloud transformation outcomes for customers and accelerate value realization.
• Foster customer partnership and provide thought leadership related to cloud, cross-pillar solutions, and expansion opportunities to drive technical wins.
• Partner with Sales to define technical go-to-market strategies and delivery plans, with a focus on winning new workloads and driving consumption within existing ones, and determine alignment, coverage and staffing needs through planning stages.
• Balance technical leadership with operational excellence, lead workload and opportunity review meetings and provide insight into how to achieve a technical agreement and migration strategy, working directly with customers, partners, and prospects.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across Google, partners, and your team to resolve technical roadblocks.