Customer Engineering Manager, Platform, Sled

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +3

This role is for a Customer Engineering Manager focused on Google Public Sector, leading teams to deploy solutions and accelerate workload migration for government and education clients. The manager will provide technical and solution advice, foster customer partnerships, define go-to-market strategies, and resolve technical roadblocks. While AI/ML experience is preferred, the core function is customer-facing technical leadership and sales support, not direct AI/ML model development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of Customer Engineers and build a thriving growth culture. Focus on talent strategy and skills development to deliver on cloud transformation outcomes for our customers and accelerate business goals for your territory.
  2. Foster strong partnerships with key customers across the book of business. Provide leadership related to cloud, transformation and relevant industry trends.
  3. Partner with Google Cloud Sales leadership to define technical go-to-market strategies and execution plan for the team's book of business.
  4. Balance technical leadership with operational excellence; lead workload and opportunity review meetings and provide insight into how to achieve a technical agreement and migration strategy, working directly with our customers, partners, and prospects.
  5. Work cross-functionally across Google, our partners, and your team to resolve technical roadblocks including capacity needs, constraints and product challenges affecting customer satisfaction.

Skills

Required

  • cloud native architecture
  • Pre-Sales Manager experience
  • people management
  • technical customer-facing role
  • Sales Engineering team experience
  • leadership experience
  • talent strategy
  • skills development
  • cloud transformation
  • technical go-to-market strategies
  • operational excellence
  • technical agreement and migration strategy
  • resolve technical roadblocks

Nice to have

  • supporting or selling to state, county, local municipal agencies, and academic institutions
  • software life-cycles
  • building tools
  • architecting and developing software for scalable, distributed systems
  • data platform
  • AI/ML (including Generative AI)
  • infrastructure
  • managing a team through sales processes
  • account mapping
  • quota setting
  • quarterly/annual performance management
  • managing sensitive information
  • presenting to technical stakeholders and executive leaders
  • delivering compelling messages by audience
  • asking strategic questions
  • leading conversations that drive business opportunity

What the JD emphasized

  • 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
  • 3 years of experience as a Pre-Sales Manager or a people manager in a technical customer-facing role within a Sales Engineering team.
  • 3 years of experience in leadership (e.g., people management, team lead, mentorship, or coaching).
  • Experience with software life-cycles, building tools, and architecting and developing software for scalable, distributed systems, including data platform, AI/ML (including Generative AI) and infrastructure.