Customer Success Manager, Smb, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +3

Customer Success Manager for Google Cloud, focusing on accelerating the adoption of Google Gemini and AI solutions for SMB customers. The role involves both broad tech-touch motions and strategic engagement with key stakeholders, synthesizing feedback for product and engineering teams, and guiding executives on leveraging AI tools and cloud infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Accelerate the successful adoption of Google Gemini and AI solutions across a portfolio of SMB customers, ensuring rapid time-to-value and sustained growth.
  2. Seamlessly navigate between executing broad, AI-first "tech-touch" motions for scaled outreach, and leading deep, strategic adoption and expansion plays with key executive stakeholders and partners.
  3. Act as a foundational builder for the team. Identify operational bottlenecks and design repeatable, scalable frameworks, playbooks, and processes from the ground up, leveraging systems-first thinking.
  4. Synthesize technical feedback and adoption trends from the SMB portfolio to partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales, directly influencing the product roadmap and go-to-market strategy.
  5. Guide IT and business executives through complex organizational transformations, educating them on how to leverage agentic tools and modern cloud infrastructure to solve critical business problems.

Skills

Required

  • 4 years of customer-facing experience in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, or Consulting within the SaaS, Cloud, or technology sector.
  • Experience building repeatable customer journeys, operational processes, or adoption playbooks from the ground up (demonstrating a "builder" and systems-thinking mindset).
  • Experience driving adoption, expansion, churn prevention and managing initiatives in a consumption-based or usage-driven business model.

Nice to have

  • MBA or Master’s degree in a Management, Technical, or Engineering field.
  • Direct experience leveraging or solving complex business problems using generative AI and agentic tools (e.g., Google Gemini, etc.).
  • Strong technical acumen with experience supporting API products, AI/ML solutions, and cloud data products (e.g., BigQuery, cloud data warehouses, and analytics tools).
  • Experience managing a high-velocity portfolio of accounts, demonstrating the ability to balance scaled (one-to-many) programmatic outreach with strategic, high-touch customer engagements.

What the JD emphasized

  • Google Gemini
  • AI solutions
  • agentic tools