Global Analytics and AI Strategic Partner Development Manager

Google Google · Big Tech · Kirkland, WA +3

This role focuses on facilitating C-level relationships with partners, showcasing Google's technology solutions, and guiding partners in developing their service offerings on Google Cloud. The manager will act as the primary technical and strategic partner liaison, driving the co-creation and adoption of AI solutions, elevating partners' technical capabilities, and accelerating customer value through technical enablement and strategic Go-To-Market (GTM) execution. The role involves working with partners to develop pipeline, land joint wins, and accelerate customer and partner value, including accelerating consumption for joint solution offerings. The manager will lead GTM efforts for AI, define sales plays, and act as a trusted advisor throughout the journey of identifying opportunities, developing capabilities, pursuing sales plays, landing wins, and delivering customer success. This involves driving campaign execution in orchestration with partners' technical, sales, and marketing teams, leveraging experience in solution building, partner management, strategy, and sales.

What you'd actually do

  1. Help partners grow their business on Google Cloud by driving Data and AI solutions with the aim of serving as their trusted advisor for both pre-sales and post sales customer engagements.
  2. Serve as the technical consultant for the partners Analytics and AI practices, deliver L200/L300-level technical sessions on Google Cloud's Analytics and AI portfolio.
  3. Evaluate and validate partner-developed solution architectures to ensure technical excellence, security, cost-effectiveness, and adherence to Google Cloud standard procedures, provide direct technical guidance to partners on their solutions for performance and consumption.
  4. Lead the life-cycle of GTM offering creation from business case, solutioning, planning and governance, business value, solution differentiation, business growth modeling.
  5. Enable partners to jointly develop GTM offering, landing with the field, and measure success through outcomes.

Skills

Required

  • public cloud services
  • business development
  • customer-facing roles
  • partner-facing roles
  • taking new products and solutions to market
  • developing and driving go-to-market (GTM) offerings with partners
  • designing AI and Analytics solutions

Nice to have

  • developing GTM offerings (Analytics, AI/ML, Generative AI) based on industry and regional requirements
  • launching and landing GTM offerings (Analytics, AI/ML, Generative AI)with partners and tracking new business
  • winning/delivering cloud deals
  • industry offerings
  • communication

What the JD emphasized

  • 15 years of experience in business development, customer-facing, or partner-facing roles relating to public cloud services.
  • Experience in designing AI and Analytics solutions.
  • Experience in developing GTM offerings (Analytics, AI/ML, Generative AI) based on industry and regional requirements.
  • Experience in launching and landing GTM offerings (Analytics, AI/ML, Generative AI)with partners and tracking new business.