When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.
The APAC Google Forge Team partners with customers to bring their goals to life. We collaborate closely to understand their challenges and ideas, then design and build practical working solutions using data, analytics, AI, and software engineering. Our goal is to demonstrate how these technologies can work together to achieve impactful business results.
In this role, you will lead the design and development of cutting-edge prototypes, demonstrating the transformative power of data, analytics, AI, and software engineering to solve complex business challenges for our customers. You will play a key role in mentoring team members and contributing to the strategic direction of our solution-building efforts.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical relationship with partners, empowering them to drive a successful pilot or proof-of-concept, support partners drive toward customer acceptance of the technical proposal, leading to an agreement, and work with partners during the migration phase to assure they have all the tools necessary to deliver a successful deployment.
- Build trusted advisory relationships and make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.
- Lead the design, development, and iterative refinement of data-centric and AI-powered solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), showcasing the potential of data and AI to address specific business needs.
- Establish and promote innovative best practices and methodologies for AI-driven solutions, actively contributing to industry thought leadership through publications, presentations, and community engagement.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience in cloud computing, with a focus on machine learning architecture, software development, and model deployment in a customer-facing or consulting role.
- Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
- Experience in programming/scripting languages such as Python.
- Experience developing and deploying data solutions.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience translating ambiguous customer requirements into actionable AI roadmaps, defining the technical architecture for fine-tuning, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and custom model development.
- Experience in architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems.
- Proven track record of managing stakeholder expectations and building consensus around complex AI initiatives, including navigating discussions on model ethics, bias, and return on investment (ROI).
- Understanding of the AI/ML landscape, including familiarity with model evaluation frameworks, prompt engineering, and the integration of third-party foundational models.