AI Sales Specialist, Startups, Google Cloud
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 6, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.
About the job
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.
It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility-a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era-the market is yours.
Responsibilities
- Build relationships with customers as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, manage complex business cycles, identify solution use cases, and influence long-term strategic direction of accounts.
- Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic business and growth goals, forecasting and reporting territory’s business.
- Work with Google accounts and cross-functional teams (e.g., Customer Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Channels) and partners to develop Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, close agreements, understand the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.
- Develop and execute strategic account plans informed by the responsible AI frameworks across an assigned territory or market.
Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understand each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, performers, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space.
- Experience leading and scaling teams in a cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment.
- Experience in working with engineers and customer technical leads to build business cases and plans for implementation.
- Experience selling business intelligence and Cloud technologies to clients.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience carrying and exceeding strategic business goals in a sales role.
- Experience working with internal/external teams, including account teams, technical leads, procurement, and legal, to inventory existing software estate, build business cases for transformation with implementation plans, and close agreements.
- Experience prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based sales activity within complex business cycles, including qualifying high value accounts and leveraging our partner ecosystem.
- Experience supporting long-term executive relationships, and developing new territories/accounts, ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.
- Knowledge of market trends, products, and solutions (including foundational technical understanding) of Cloud and AI.