Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.

• Experience with API technologies, such as Geospatial API technology, and experience with mapping application development and integration, using Google Map Platform or other Location or Maps platforms on web or mobile platforms (e.g. Android).

• Leadership experience, such as people management, team lead, mentorship, or coaching.

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders, tailoring/delivering compelling messages by audience, asking strategic questions, and leading conversations that drive business opportunity.

• Experience managing a team through sales processes, operations and career development, including account mapping, quota setting, performance management, and managing sensitive information.

• Experience with software lifecycles, building tools, and architecting and developing software for scalable, distributed systems, including data platform, AI/ML and infrastructure.

• Experience as a pre-sales manager or technical customer-facing people manager within a professional services or sales engineering team.

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 Customer Engineering (CE) Manager, you lead and deploy a team of subject matter experts responsible for working alongside our customers to provide trusted technical and solution advice to accelerate workload migration and remove technical impediments.

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 $181,000-$257,000 + 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 (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) .

• Lead a team of Customer Engineers, focusing on team culture, talent strategy, and skills development to deliver successful cloud transformation outcomes for customers and accelerate business goals.

• Foster customer partnership and provide thought leadership related to cloud, transformation and industry trends.

• Partner with Sales leadership to define the technical go-to-market strategy and execution plan for the team's territory. Through planning stages, determine alignment, coverage and staffing needs across opportunities.

• Balance technical leadership with operational excellence; lead workload and opportunity review meetings and provide insight into how to achieve a technical agreement and migration strategy, working with customers, partners, and prospects.

• Work cross-functionally across Google, partners, and your team to resolve technical roadblocks including capacity needs and constraints and product problems affecting customer satisfaction.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.