AI Sales Specialist, Startups, Google Cloud

$129,000 - $194,000/Yr

Google - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

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About the position

As an AI Sales Specialist at Google Cloud, you will play a crucial role in expanding the AI business by building and nurturing relationships with both new and existing customers. This position involves delivering business value through product demonstrations, identifying key use cases, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive customer success and adoption of AI solutions. You will manage complex business cycles and work closely with various stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of AI technologies that meet customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with customers as a subject-matter-expert and trusted advisor, managing complex business cycles, identifying solution use cases, and influencing long-term strategic direction of accounts.
• Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting your territory's business.
• Work with Google accounts and cross-functional teams (e.g., Customer Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Channels) to develop go-to-market strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, close agreements, understand the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.
• Develop and execute strategic account plans informed by our responsible AI framework across an assigned territory or market.
• Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer's strategy, growth plans, business, competitors, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software, cloud space, or AI space.
• Experience identifying AI use cases to solve customer issues or promoting AI technology to clients.
• Experience in, or supporting the startup ecosystem.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time to present at customer meetings, conferences, and other related events.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with strategic business goals in a sales role.
• Experience supporting long-term executive relationships, and developing new territories/accounts while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.
• Experience prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based business activity within complex business cycles, including qualifying accounts and using our partner ecosystem.
• Experience working with internal/external teams, including account teams, technical leads, procurement, and legal, to inventory existing software estate, build business cases for transformation with implementation plans, and close agreements.
• Knowledge of market trends, products, and solutions (including foundational technical understanding) of Cloud and AI.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $129,000-$194,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.