Strategic Partnerships Development Manager, SMB

Google · United States

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking.
• Experience in the Consumer Electronics, Auto, OEMs, Telecom, E-Commerce/Retail, Apps, Ads, Gaming, or Technology industries.
• Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.
• Experience managing agreements or partnerships.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience driving partner growth and contributing to team culture through leadership skills, creativity, and collaboration.
• Experience developing growth initiatives, achieving partner sales targets, and using sales reporting tools.
• Analytical experience, running experiments, drawing conclusions, and building actionable plans based on data.

As the Strategic Partner Development Manager for Small and Medium Businesses (SMB), you will drive the recruitment strategy for new partners and accelerate their adoption of Google Cloud services. You will collaborate across Google Clouds Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and customer-facing organizations to foster executive alignment, develop co-innovation plans for new solutions, and orchestrate the co-sell motion between Google Cloud and partner sales organizations.

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

• Work directly with core sellers and channel partners to reach as many SMB accounts with our Google Cloud solutions.
• Own the enablement, alignment, and introductions for our core sellers and drive prioritization of Google Cloud portfolio across all sellers and corresponding channel partners.
• Construct and execute a territory development plan.
• Partner with Marketing, Customer Engineering, Customer Success, Channels, Product, and Engineering teams to understand the needs of the customer and provide excellent customer experience.
• Develop and drive pipeline, to manage cycles leading from generation to customer onboarding, and build and maintain relationships to influence long-term strategic direction.