Customer Engineering Manager, Data Analytics, Google Cloud
Summary
Lead a team of Practice Customer Engineers to provide technical and solution advice to customers, driving cloud transformations and value realization using Google Cloud products, with a focus on data analytics and specialized workload adoption.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
- Leadership experience, such as people management, team lead, mentorship, or coaching.
- Experience with AI technologies or concepts, cloud, and on-premise technologies.
- Experience leading technical conversations, demos, prototyping or workshops with customers.
- Experience driving the adoption of specialized workloads with executive and technical domain experts.
- Experience as a pre-sales manager or technical customer-facing people manager within a professional services or sales engineering team.
- Experience tailoring and delivering compelling messages by audience, asking strategic questions, and leading conversations that accelerate value realization and business opportunity.
- Experience in data analytics and adjacent practice areas, specialized in technical sales and strategizing around holistic customer and industry solutions.
- Experience influencing cross-functional teams (e.g., Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Partner), customers, and partners to impact business goals, customer experience, and customer expansion.
- Lead a team of Practice Customer Engineers, focusing on team culture, talent strategy, and skills development to deliver successful cloud transformations for customers and accelerate value realization.
- Foster customer partnership and provide thought leadership related to cloud, transformation, and highly specialized technical solutions in the practice to drive technical wins.
- Partner with Sales to define technical go-to-market strategies and delivery plans, focusing on advanced workload adoption and repeatable solution development.
- Balance technical leadership with operational excellence; lead workload and opportunity review meetings and provide insight into how to achieve technical wins and migration strategy, working directly with customers, partners, and prospects. Oversee domain-specific prototyping and proofs-of-concept.
- Work cross-functionally across Google, partners, and your team to resolve technical roadblocks, and provide critical feedback loops to Product and Engineering based on field experience.