Technology Practice Head, Infrastructure Modernization, Google Cloud by Google

February 21, 2024
Technology Practice Head, Infrastructure Modernization, Google Cloud by Google

Job Description

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 engineered 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 Technology Practice Head within Google Cloud Customer Engineering, you’ll bring experience and thought leadership to help set vision, mission, and strategy for technology solution pillars. You’ll lead a cross-Google working team through critical engagements with global brands, identify and parse industry trends in cloud computing to recommend, plan for, and address core market opportunities.

You’ll develop solution initiatives and materials to support them with a cross-functional group of stakeholders to help define solutions, use cases, and their growth strategy at Google Cloud. You will help ensure technical/commercial readiness of these solutions, including assets to enable the Go-To-Market teams, and provide field feedback to Product and Engineering teams to help shape product direction.

Additionally, you will set KPI and measurements for solutions adoption, and recommend ways for customers to adapt to challenges facing modern enterprises related to scale, speed, and user expectations.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in product or Go-To-Market business management, leading a team across APAC.
  • Experience in the enterprise space translating customer business needs into cloud-centric solutions.
  • Ability to travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience leading and managing a team to thrive in ambiguity in a dynamic, highly matrixed environment.
  • Deep knowledge of cloud technology and architectures.
  • 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 emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
  • Excellent presentation skills with the ability to deliver a polished, professional business, and technical pitch to the C-Suite and Board levels.

Responsibilities:

  • Build, inspire, and lead a cross-functional distributed practice of specialist Customer Engineers across APAC.
  • Be an adovate of Google Cloud for your specialist focus area which includes press and analyst communities, customers, and partners.
  • Reflect the opinions of the Regional customers, partners, and field to influence a data-driven vision and direction for technology, solutions, and use case development at Google Cloud.
  • Assist in the delivery of published materials aligned to your specific specialist focus area supporting Google Cloud solutions and use cases.
  • Partner closely with Customer Engineering leaders, Product leaders, Sales strategy, and executive leadership to ensure solutions alignment with engineering, product priorities, and Go-To-Market priorities.