Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• Candidates will typically have 10 years of experience as a technical field engineer in a cloud computing environment.

• Experience managing a quota-carrying team.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience as a customer-facing field engineer.

• Experience in data and information management as it relates to big data trends and issues within businesses.

• Experience using and managing databases.

• Knowledge of Big Data, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, public cloud, and related industry and technical concepts.

• Ability to craft a compelling message and tailor it for a given audience.

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 engineered 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 Sales Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of sales engineers who engage with business prospects in the Gaming industry to discover and assess customer requirements, prepare and present demonstrations of Google’s Cloud services, and address and overcome technical objections that arise throughout the business process.

Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.

• Collaborate with Sales Engineering to determine team growth in order to support business goals.

• Organize, train and equip the Sales Engineering team. Assess team’s go-to-market readiness, identify gaps in preparedness, and build plans to ensure the team is trained and equipped to successfully perform in support of business goals.

• Work with Google Cloud Sales leadership to identify, qualify, and prioritize coverage for opportunities. Participate in opportunity review meetings providing insight into how to best secure the technical opportunity.

• Work with the Sales Account team, customer support, product management, customer solutions, and engineering to resolve product problems 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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.