Field Sales Manager III, Google Cloud

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO 20 days per year

Sick time 40 hours/year

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Field Sales Manager to lead and coach the Field Sales Representative team, driving consultative selling and quota attainment across enterprise accounts. You will partner with executives to align strategies, manage pipelines, and accelerate consumption using Google's cloud and AI solutions.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategic account development, and deep collaboration with cross-functional teams to maximize value for customers and Google's growth plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of quota-carrying cloud or software sales or consultative account management at a B2B software company.
• Experience engaging and building relationships with a wide range of internal teams and customer stakeholders.
• Experience managing the full business cycle (pipeline, forecasting, reporting) and commercial negotiations.
• Leadership experience (people management, team lead, mentorship, coaching).

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of FSRs, focusing on talent strategy and consultative selling techniques.
• Monitor progress against strategic account plans, ensure goals are met, accelerate consumption, and drive satisfaction.
• Develop a high-performance culture through data-driven coaching and career development support.
• Build executive relationships with customers and influence long-term strategic direction.
• Leverage cloud, data, and AI tech to address customer challenges with Google Cloud's value proposition.

Skills

Quota-carrying sales

Consultative selling

Relationship building

Forecasting & pipeline mgmt

Leadership & coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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: Seattle, WA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or consultative account management at a B2B software company.
• Experience engaging and building relationships with a wide range of internal teams and customer stakeholders.
• Experience managing the full business cycle (e.g., pipeline management, forecasting, reporting) and managing commercial negotiations and agreements.
• Leadership experience (e.g., people management, team lead, mentorship, coaching).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting a team to expand existing accounts, secure new customers, and accelerate consumption revenue.
• Experience qualifying leads and presenting value proposition against customers’ business opportunities and challenges. Experience showcasing current technology trends and cloud provider differentiators.
• Experience with organizational development and transformation, fostering consultative selling behaviors, aligning with sales leadership initiatives, and supporting teams on multi-year account strategies.
• Experience in performance management and business cycles, coaching high performance and ensuring delivery against goals.

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 Field Sales Manager (FSM), you will hold a critical leadership role responsible for driving a culture of high performance, transformation, and strategic partnership. You will lead and coach the Field Sales Representative (FSR) community to be consultative sellers, providing the skills, resources, and future-forward ideas needed to exceed quotas, drive incremental growth, and successfully maximize the value of accounts. The team will manage the growth strategy for enterprise accounts, engaging C-suite customers with consultative value selling methodology. You will be technically-fluent, able to lead conversations with customers about how Google Cloud's portfolio of solutions will meet their unique business challenges. You will advocate the innovative power of products and solutions to make organizations more productive, collaborative, and mobile.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $204000 (USD) + 150% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Lead and coach a team of FSRs, focusing on talent strategy and skills development, emphasizing innovative, consultative selling techniques.
• Monitor and influence progress against strategic account plans, ensuring the team exceeds business goals, accelerates and increases consumption, and drives customer satisfaction throughout the business cycle.
• Develop a strong performance culture through data-driven coaching, timely intervention, performance management, and career development support.
• Build executive relationships with customers and influence long-term strategic direction by understanding their technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, and competitive landscape.
• Leverage practical expertise in cloud, data, and AI technologies to lead conversations on Google Cloud's unique value proposition to address customer business challenges and opportunities.

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.