Technical Account Manager, Google Cloud Consulting (English, German)

About the job

Our Google Cloud Consulting organization within Google Cloud delivers product and implementation expertise to our strategic customers to help them get the most out of their Google Cloud investments.

As a Technical Account Manager (TAM), you will help customers successfully adopt Google Cloud products. You will lead the successful adoption of Google Cloud at leading organizations, guiding them through the strategic and technical facets of their Google Cloud transformation journey. As a TAM you will drive customer adoption of Google Cloud services, like Google Compute Engine, Vertex AI, Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, Workspace, and many more. You will regularly engage with diverse stakeholder groups, including executives of large enterprises and a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team. A successful TAM, communicates at all levels of the organization, establishing as a trusted advisor.

Travel (domestically and internationally) up to approximately 20% of the time.

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

• Accelerate customer adoption of Google Cloud by leading the implementation journey. Provide technical guidance and manage timelines, milestones, migration goal and business transformation strategies.
• Advocate for customer needs in order to overcome adoption blockers and drive new feature development. Lead across multiple work streams and teams to maintain customer momentum.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders to understand a customer’s business and develop strategic roadmaps. Lead quarterly business reviews and executive sessions for better understanding of business and technical needs.
• Plan for customer events and launches, partnering with Support, Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to ensure customer success during critical moments. Work with customers and Support to guide issues and escalations to resolution.
• Develop best practices and assets based on learnings from customer engagements to support initiatives to scale through partners and accelerate cloud adoption.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in a customer-facing role working with stakeholders, driving customer technical implementations or transformation programs.
• Ability to communicate in English and German fluently to support client relationship management in this region

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a Management, Technical or Engineering field.
• Experience as a Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer, Technical Account Manager, or similar.
• Experience in application/workload migration to public cloud providers like Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience collaborating with channel partners, systems integrators, and third-party developers to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Understanding of one of the following: IT operations, database systems, networking, IT security, application development, service architecture, cloud-native application development, hosted services, storage systems or content delivery networks.

Benefits: 

• Health and Wellbeing (Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents)
• Financial wellbeing (Competitive compensation, regular bonus and equity refresh opportunities)
• Flexibility and time off (Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, jury duty, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays)
• Family support and care (Fertility and growing family support, parental leave and baby bonding leave)
• Community and personal development (Educational reimbursement)
• Googley extras (Inspiring spaces to work, recharge, and collaborate with fellow Googlers)

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.