AI Sales Specialist, Startups, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · New York, NY +2

AI Sales Specialist for Google Cloud, focusing on growing AI business with startups by building relationships, demonstrating product functionality, and identifying use cases. The role involves working with customers to deliver business value and build new products leveraging Google's AI solutions, including Gemini models and the Vertex AI platform.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting your territory’s business.
  3. 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.
  4. Develop and execute strategic account plans informed by our responsible AI framework across an assigned territory or market.
  5. Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, competitors, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.

Skills

Required

  • Sales experience in enterprise software, cloud, or AI
  • Identifying AI use cases
  • Selling AI technology
  • Customer relationship management
  • Business development
  • Strategic account planning
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Negotiation
  • Problem-solving
  • Active listening

Nice to have

  • Exceeding strategic business goals in sales
  • Supporting long-term executive relationships
  • Developing new territories/accounts
  • Ensuring customer success, adoption, and expansion
  • Working cross-functionally with technical leads, procurement, and legal
  • Building business cases for transformation
  • Prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based sales activity
  • Leveraging partner ecosystem
  • Knowledge of Cloud and AI market trends, products, and solutions
  • Foundational technical understanding of Cloud and AI

What the JD emphasized

  • 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 challenges or selling AI technology to clients