About the job

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 true business value, demonstrate product functionality, and provide a comprehensive 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 innovative ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for Google Cloud.

It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to Deep Mind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.

The Canada base salary range for this full-time position is CAD 172,000-176,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Please note that the compensation details listed in Canada role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.

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

• 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 strategic 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 footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, promoters, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software, cloud space, or AI space.

• Experience identifying AI use cases to solve customer issues or selling AI technology to clients.

• Experience working with the public sector market, including defense entities, across Canada.

• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as needed.

Preferred qualifications

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

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

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

• Experience working cross functionally (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 market trends, products, and solutions (including foundational technical understanding) of Cloud and AI.

• Excellent negotiation, problem-solving, and active listening skills.