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

• Work with Google accounts and cross-functional teams (e.g. Customer Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Channels) to develop go-to-market strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, close agreements, understand the needs of the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.

• Develop and execute account plans informed by our responsible AI framework across an assigned territory or market.

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

• Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting the territory’s business.

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 an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sales Specialist, you will help us grow our AI business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. In this role, you will work with customers to deliver the business value, demonstrate product functionality, and provide an overview of key business use cases. Business cycles will include a combination of productivity use cases, as well as working with product teams to help our customers build new products leveraging our AI solutions. You will lead day-to-day relationships with cross-functional team members and external customers, leading with empathy, while identifying ways to multiply the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for Google Cloud.

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.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience carrying and exceeding business goals in a sales role.

• 2 years of experience in engineering or promoting AI or data analytics technologies.

• Experience supporting executive relationships, and developing new territories/accounts.

• Ability to communicate in Japanese fluently as this role requires interactions in Japanese with local stakeholders.