Partner Engineering Manager, Google Cloud

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmark; Helsinki, Finland; Oslo, Norway.

Minimum qualifications:

• Experience as a Technical Sales Engineer in a cloud computing environment, or in a customer/partner-facing role working on professional services, solutions architect, or systems engineering team.

• Experience in a people manager role.

• Experience leading technical sales or consulting teams across multiple geographies.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or other technical field.
• Experience with cloud-native software development methodologies and tools to support application development/deployment stages including CI/CD.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Big Data, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, public cloud, and related industry and technical concepts.
• Understanding of application security patterns including web application security, service mesh, and mobile security strategies.
• Ability to craft a compelling message and tailor it for a given audience.

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 engineered 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 Partner Engineering Manager, you will help build a robust partner ecosystem capable of driving a significant portion of our business through an indirect channel. You will be a trusted advisor to our partners who are supported every step of the way in growing their businesses with Google Cloud. You will manage a team that are seen as Partner Sales Engineers within the overall customer engineering organization in Google Cloud.

You will work with Google Cloud Partner and Sales leadership to grow and develop the technical capacity of our Google Cloud partner ecosystem. You will help recruit, launch, and grow our partners, enabling their technical teams and assisting them and joint customers in their technical journey with Google Cloud.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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

• Collaborate with Google Cloud partner development managers to build business plans with partners that define how they will grow their business with Google.
• Work with key partners to increase the adoption of Google Cloud services by investing in building out their Google Cloud capability and readiness.
• Engage with Chief Technical Officers and other technical leads at key partners to share technology roadmaps as well as the latest innovations, showing the path toward expanding the partnership further.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.