Field Sales Representative I, Greenfield, Startups, Google Cloud - Google
Austin, TX
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience with quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or account management at a business to business software company.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working with, and leading, cross-functional teams and partners in implementations and negotiations.
- Experience with commercial and legal negotiations, working with Procurement, Legal, and Business teams.
- Experience working with Customer Engineers and customers' technical leads to inventory software estate, define migration plans, and build migration business cases.
- Experience prospecting, and building new customer relationships, and acquiring new logos at scale and securing foundational workloads to accelerate consumption business growth.
- Experience promoting Cloud Solutions, Infrastructure Software, Databases, Analytic Tools, or Applications Software to Startups or Digital Native organizations, aligning solutions to drive business outcomes.
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), focused on new customer acquisition for accounts within the startup ecosystem, you will grow Google Cloud by acquiring new logos and securing the foundational workloads to accelerate their consumption business growth. You will lead engagements with cross-industry startup customers and assist them in solving their business challenges with solutions. You will identify specific business problems, working with stakeholders across accounts, and partnering with extended teams to develop technical solutions to solve them. You will build meaningful customer relationships across levels, from developers to C-suite executives. Additionally, you will lead a cross-functional team and leverage resources, including Customer Engineering, Business Development, cross-functional sellers, and Partners to support outcomes.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $73,500-$108,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Lead prospecting and acquisition of new logos, creating and building customer relationships, and acting as a trusted advisor on long-term technology and business decisions.
- Become an expert on customers' business, including their SaaS product portfolio, technology strategy, strategic growth plans, business drivers, financial structure, customer base, vertical market offering and competitive landscape.
- Lead account strategy to develop business growth opportunities, working cross-functionally with multiple teams and Google Partners, to support business impact within startup customers.
- Manage business cycles, present to C-level executives, and negotiate terms.
- Drive business development, own operational excellence at scale, forecast accurately, and achieve strategic goals by leading customers through the entire business cycle.
