Field Sales Representative, Google Cloud, Financial Services

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.

As a Field Sales Representative (FSR), you will serve as a partner to Google Cloud customers in your territory. You will engage customers with a consultative value selling methodology and advocate the innovative power of our products and solutions to make organizations more productive, collaborative, and mobile.

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

• Build and deepen executive relationships with enterprise customers; bring to Google your mature CxO relationships to help us grow into new organizations.
• Manage end-to-end complex sales cycles, often presenting to C-level executives in corporate customers.
• Lead account strategy in generating and developing business growth opportunities, working collaboratively with Customer Engineers and Google Partners.
• Understand each customer’s technology footprint, growth plans, business drivers, technology strategy, and external landscape.
• Drive business development, forecast accurately, and achieve goals by leading customers through the entire business cycle.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or consultative account management at a business-to-business (B2B) software company.
• Experience engaging and building relationships with a wide range of internal teams and customer stakeholders.
• Experience in, or supporting, the financial services industry.
• Experience managing the full sales cycle (e.g., pipeline management, forecasting, reporting).
• Experience managing commercial negotiations and agreements.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with consultative selling to executives, asking insightful, visionary questions, presenting future-forward proposals, and building multi-year account strategies and plans.

• Experience qualifying leads and presenting the value proposition of cloud, data, and AI technologies against customers’ business opportunities and issues, and showcasing current technology trends and Google Cloud differentiators.
• Experience expanding existing accounts, securing new customers, and accelerating consumption business.
• Experience with complex agreements structuring, negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements, and supporting multi-year engagements.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and partners in project implementation and negotiation.
• Demonstrated business and financial acumen (e.g., P&L management, accurate forecasting).