Account Manager, Google Customer Solutions

Google Google · Big Tech · Sydney NSW, Australia

Account Manager for Google Customer Solutions, focusing on helping small and medium-sized businesses grow using Google's advertising solutions. The role involves building client relationships, understanding business needs, developing strategies, and ensuring campaign success. While AI is mentioned as a tool for working smarter, the core function is sales and account management, not AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify and build trusted relationships with key client decision-makers, engaging effectively (often virtually) to understand their business objectives and marketing needs.
  2. Analyze customer objectives, financials, and the competitive landscape to develop high-quality agreements,and align on ambitious goals that maximize portfolio value and contribute to quarterly growth targets.
  3. Build deep Google Ads knowledge to identify the right solutions for customer needs, and pitch powerfully by simplifying product features into customer-focused language, always demonstrating a clear value proposition designed to exceed expectations.
  4. Ensure effective campaign implementation, meticulously tracking and measuring the long-term impact of Google's solutions against client objectives and relative to competitor offerings.
  5. Lead future customer growth and long-term partnerships by identifying and pursuing opportunities, always acting with sales integrity while embracing a culture of learning and working smarter with AI.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in sales, business development, advertising, account management, marketing, or consulting.
  • Experience working with advertisers, agencies, or clients.
  • Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as required.

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in a business related field.
  • Experience strategically assessing and achieving client success via sales techniques, including effective questioning, objection handling, and competitive selling.
  • Experience working with channel sales, advertisers, agencies, or clients.
  • Expertise in launching and managing paid digital advertising campaigns, particularly in Google Ads and other digital marketing platforms.
  • Ability to manage and prioritize a portfolio in an advertising or media sales context, and demonstrated ability to achieve goals to drive growth.
  • Ability to build compelling narratives and utilize storytelling as a client engagement strategy.