Field Sales Representative III, Enterprise Growth, Google Cloud

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud Platform seeks a Field Sales Representative to serve as a strategic partner for enterprise accounts in the US, including Sunnyvale. You will lead growth strategies, engage customers with consultative value selling, and align cloud solutions with critical business needs.

You will coordinate internal experts and partners to drive consumption, negotiate multi-year agreements, and articulate ROI with deployment plans.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of quota-carrying cloud or software sales at a B2B software company.
• Experience engaging with diverse internal teams and customer stakeholders.
• Experience managing the full business cycle including pipeline, forecasting and reporting.
• Experience negotiating commercial agreements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sales strategies to surpass business goals and build trusted, consultative relationships with customers.
• Manage and track the sales pipeline, from lead to close, ensuring health and accurate forecasting for clear visibility into expected outcomes.
• Negotiate complex, multi-year agreements and formulate persuasive proposals that illustrate clear return on investment through customer business cases and comprehensive deployment plans.
• Mobilize internal experts (Customer Engineering, Partner, Post-Sales) and external partners at the right time to drive consumption and deliver a seamless customer experience.
• Leverage emerging technology trends, market analysis, and knowledge of cloud solutions to showcase how Google Cloud can transform customers' business.

Skills

Quota-carrying cloud sales experience

Stakeholder management

Full sales lifecycle

Commercial negotiations

Executive-level selling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

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).
• Experience managing commercial negotiations and agreements.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience qualifying leads and presenting the value proposition of cloud, data, and AI technologies against customers' strategic business opportunities and challenges while showcasing current technology trends and Google Cloud differentiators.
• Experience with consultative selling to executives, asking insightful, visionary questions, presenting future-forward proposals, and building multi-year account strategies and plans.
• Experience expanding existing accounts, securing new customers, and accelerating consumption business.
• Experience with agreements structuring, negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements, and supporting multi-year engagements.
• Experience with business and financial acumen (e.g., profit and loss management, accurate forecasting).
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and partners in project implementation and negotiation.

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 Representative (FSR), you will serve as a strategic partner to Google Cloud customers in your territory. You will manage the growth strategy for enterprise accounts, engaging customers with consultative value selling methodology. You will drive long-term business growth by gaining a deep understanding of customers' critical issues and aligning them with Google Cloud's portfolio of solutions. You will lead the business process, from initiating customer conversations to orchestrating internal and external teams to deliver revenue commitments and increased consumption. 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: $118000 - $171000 (USD) + 150% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement sales strategies to surpass business goals and build trusted, consultative relationships with customers.
• Manage and track the sales pipeline, from lead to close, ensuring health and accurate forecasting for clear visibility into expected outcomes.
• Negotiate complex, multi-year agreements and formulate persuasive proposals that illustrate clear return on investment through customer business cases and comprehensive deployment plans.
• Mobilize internal experts (Customer Engineering, Partner, Post-Sales) and external partners at the right time to drive consumption and deliver a seamless customer experience.
• Leverage emerging technology trends, market analysis, and knowledge of cloud solutions to showcase how Google Cloud can transform customers' business.