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You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business challenges. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs of concepts and demos, and use your expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business challenges. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will engage with technical and business leaders, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.\nYou will focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads. You will have a breadth of technical expertise, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics, and more. You will blend sales expertise, market knowledge and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.\nGoogle 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.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting targeted sales motions.\nCombine sales, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to prove the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through complex demos, pilots and in-depth workshops.\nArchitect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers. 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