About the role
AI summarisedThis is a Customer Engineering Manager role at Google Cloud, responsible for leading a team of Customer Engineers to drive cloud transformation for customers, with a focus on Global System Integrators in the APAC market. The role involves technical leadership, sales partnership, and operational excellence to accelerate workload migration and value realization.
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Key Responsibilities
- 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 value realization.
- Foster customer partnership and provide thought leadership related to cloud, cross-pillar solutions, and expansion opportunities to drive technical wins.
- Partner with sales leadership to define technical go-to-market strategies and delivery plans, with a focus on winning new workloads and driving consumption within existing ones, through planning stages, determine alignment, coverage and staffing needs.
- 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 directly with our customers, partners, and prospects.
- Work cross-functionally across Google, partners, and your team to resolve technical roadblocks.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
- Experience working with Global System Integrators (GSIs) within the APAC market.
- Experience with leadership (e.g., people management, team lead, mentorship, coaching).
- Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
- Experience with technical conversations, demos, prototyping, or workshops with customers.
- Experience with software lifecycles, building tools, and architecting/developing software for scalable, distributed systems (e.g., data platform, AI/ML, infrastructure).
- Experience with driving joint GTM motion with global system integrators.
- Experience as a pre-sales manager or technical customer-facing people manager within a professional services or sales engineering team.
- Experience managing a team through pre-sales processes and career development (e.g., account mapping, quota setting, performance management).
- Experience engaging with and presenting to executive leaders (e.g., delivering compelling messages, strategic questions, leading conversations that drive accelerated value realization).
- Experience driving delivery and consumption plans for complex, cross-pillar cloud solutions.