Technical Account Manager, Google Cloud Consulting

Google•Toronto, ON

About The Position

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners. As a Technical Account Manager (TAM), you will help customers successfully adopt Google Cloud products. You will lead the successful adoption of Google Cloud at organizations, guiding them through the strategic and technical facets of their Google Cloud transformation journey. You will manage the successful delivery of Cloud Consulting engagements to drive customer adoption of Google Cloud services. In this role, you will regularly engage with various stakeholder groups, including leadership of enterprises and a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in a customer-facing role working with stakeholders, driving customer technical implementations or transformation programs.
Experience supporting customers in cloud operations (e.g., launch or capacity planning, product release management), technical support, escalation management, or consulting.

Nice To Haves

MBA or Master’s degree in a Management, Technical, or Engineering field.
Experience translating business requirements into technological solutions.
Experience in application or workload migration to public cloud providers.
Experience collaborating with teams, groups, business units, channel partners, systems integrators, and third-party developers to deliver high-impact solutions.
Understanding of IT operations, database systems, networking, IT security, application development, service architecture, cloud-native application development, hosted services, storage systems, or content delivery networks.
Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, problem-solving, and client management skills.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end implementation journey to accelerate customer adoption of Google Cloud, delivering technical guidance and managing timelines, milestones, migration goals and business transformation strategies.
Advocate for customer needs in order to overcome adoption blockers and drive new feature development, co-ordinating across multiple work streams and teams to maintain customer momentum.
Build relationships with stakeholders to understand customer’s business, develop strategic roadmaps, and lead quarterly business reviews and executive sessions to better understand business and technical needs.
Orchestrate customer events and launches in collaboration with Support, Developers, and Site Reliability Developers to drive customer success, and guide issues/escalations through to resolution.
Develop best practices and assets based on learnings from customer engagements to support initiatives to scale through partners and accelerate Google Cloud adoption.