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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with customers as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, managing complex business-cycles, identifying solution use cases, and influencing long-term strategic direction of accounts.

• Construct and execute an effective territory development plan and deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting your territory’s business.

• Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, performance, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 4 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space.

• Experience selling to clients in the enterprise cybersecurity or IT field.

• Ability to communicate in Japanese and English fluently to interact with internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience carrying and exceeding strategic business goals in a sales role.

• Experience promoting security software or security solutions.

• Experience planning, and organizing solution-based sales activity within complex business-cycles, including qualifying high value accounts and leveraging our partner ecosystem.

• Experience supporting long-term executive relationships, and developing territories/accounts from scratch, while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.

• Experience working with internal/external teams, including account teams, technical leads, procurement, and legal, to inventory existing software estate, build business cases for transformation with implementation plans, and close agreements.

• Knowledge of Japan market trends, products, and solutions in Cloud and cybersecurity.