Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in virtualization or cloud native architectures in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with database technologies and database administration techniques/tools (e.g., high availability and disaster recovery, data migrations, or performance optimization).
• Experience with solution promoting or experience engaging with accounts, promoting a portfolio of products at executive-level.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in databases and database management.
• 10 years of experience leading and managing teams to grow in ambiguity in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and import and export talent and ideas to achieve a broader organizational goal.
• Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new and emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.
• Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to deliver a professional business and technical pitch to C-Suite and board levels.

About the job

As a Solutions Manager for Google Cloud, you will deliver impactful, customer-relevant business outcomes and enable repeatable, low-friction solutions-based promoting. You will develop new solution initiatives and deliver the materials to support them in collaboration with a broad, cross-functional group of stakeholders, including Strategic Industries, Product Management and Engineering, Marketing, and Sales. You will be accountable to deliver solutions that accelerate customer adoption and improve the effectiveness of field sales to articulate solution-based value propositions to customers.

In this role, you will drive thought leadership by identifying and incorporating industry trends in Cloud computing to recommend, plan for, and address core market opportunities with new Cloud solutions and use cases. You will partner with key cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the technical and commercial readiness of these solutions, including availability of the assets required to enable the Go-to-Market teams. You will interface directly with customers, both helping them to understand Google Cloud's solution offerings and gathering their feedback. You will recommend ways to adapt as the market and customer needs change.

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 $195,000-$278,000 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

• Analyze customer needs and market opportunity to select and prioritize Google Cloud solutions across Databases and how they work with other pillars.
• Define and validate solutions with a focus on technical and commercial readiness to accelerate customer adoption.
• Manage cross-functional collaboration to drive asset development (BOM).
• Package and launch solution to enable low-friction customer consumption and deliver strong Google field enablement.
• Own and manage the ongoing lifecycle of each solution.