Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Gurugram, Haryana, India
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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 leadership, such as people management, team lead, mentorship, or coaching.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time as needed.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with data ecosystem, including Open source, architecting and developing distributed systems, along with experience in data processing, business analytics and visualization, Data Science and AI.
- Experience as a Pre-Sales Manager or a people manager in a technical customer-facing role within a professional services or Sales Engineering team.
- Experience managing a team through business processes, operations and career development, including account mapping, quota setting, quarterly/annual performance management, and managing sensitive information.
- Experience presenting to both technical stakeholders and executives, leading conversations that drive business opportunities.
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 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 impediments.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.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of Customer Engineers and build a growth culture. Focus on talent strategy and skills development to deliver on successful outcomes for our customers and accelerate business goals.
- Build partnerships with customers. Provide leadership related to convergence of Data, Analytics and AI, as well as industry trends.
- Partner with Google Cloud Sales leadership to define technical go-to-market strategies and execution plan for the team's business.
- 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 our customers, partners and prospects.
- Work cross-functionally across Google, our partners, and the team to resolve technical roadblocks including capacity needs, constraints and product tests affecting customer satisfaction.
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 .