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.

As a Head of Customer Engineering (CE), you will lead CE managers and teams and deploy a team of subject matter experts responsible for working alongside customers to provide trusted technical and solution advice to accelerate workload migration and remove technical blockers. You will foster a culture of technical ownership and understand the mechanics of architecture, delivery, and consumption across the Google Cloud portfolio.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $192,000-$267,000 + 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. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of CE Managers and extended teams, focusing on team culture, talent strategy, and skills development to deliver successful cloud transformation outcomes for customers and accelerate value realization.

• Build customer partnership and deliver thought leadership across cloud, cross-pillar solutions, and expansion opportunities to drive technical wins.

• Partner with business leadership to define technical go-to-market strategies and delivery plans, with a focus on winning new workloads and driving consumption within existing ones, including alignment, coverage and staffing needs across planning stages.

• Balance technical leadership with operational excellence, lead workload and opportunity review meetings with Sales and CE teams and provide insight into technical agreements and migration approaches for customers, partners, and prospects.

• Work cross-functionally across Google, partners, and teams to resolve technical roadblocks.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.

• 3 years of experience as a manager leading teams in a technical customer-facing role within professional services or Sales Engineering.

• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.

• Experience with technical conversations, demos, prototyping, or workshops with customers.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with software life-cycles, building tools, and architecting/developing software for scalable, distributed systems (e.g., data platform, AI/ML, infrastructure).

• Experience managing a team through pre-sales processes and career development (e.g., account mapping, quota setting, performance management, managing sensitive information).

• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders/executive leaders (e.g., delivering compelling messages by audience, asking strategic questions, leading conversations that drive accelerated value realization and business opportunity).

• Experience driving delivery and consumption plans for complex, cross-pillar cloud solutions.