Senior Account Strategist, Mid-Market Sales, Google Customer Solutions

Businesses of all shapes and sizes rely on Google’s unparalleled advertising solutions to help them grow in today's dynamic marketing environment. You bring a passion for sales, knowledge of online media, and commitment to maximize customer success. You act like an owner, move with velocity through change, finding innovative and strategic ways to consistently deliver extraordinary and incremental outcomes for both Google and your customers. You build trusted relationships with customers, uncovering their business needs and translating them into powerful solutions to achieve their most ambitious goals. You achieve as a team with sellers, shape the future of advertising in the AI-era, and make a real impact on the millions of companies and billions of users that trust Google with their most important goals.

Google Customer Solutions (GCS) sales teams are trusted advisors and competitive sellers who maintain a relentless focus on customer success by bringing the best Google has to offer to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which are the backbone of our communities. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to work with company owners and make a real difference in their businesses by helping them grow. Together, we help shape the future of innovation for customers, partners, and sellers...and we have fun doing it.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage relationships with clients virtually, or face to face by meeting with multiple clients on a daily basis and developing an understanding of their business issues, marketing objectives, and success metrics.
• Plan for, and achieve, growth goals including but not limited to quarterly business growth and productivity goals, through the presentation of Google advertising products/solutions that will help clients to meet their marketing objectives.
• Own a portfolio of medium and large-size businesses by thoroughly understanding growth drivers, identifying opportunities for growth, managing risks, and build multi-quarter plans for achievement.
• Develop forward thinking, data-driven analyses and consultative recommendations that align with customer goals, and quantify high-impact opportunities with clear recommendations to present to customers.
• Build an in-depth idea of how Google advertising products work and can be used to help customers.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in sales, business development, advertising, account management, marketing, or consulting.
  
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
  
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a Business related field.
  
• Experience in assessing and achieving client success via business techniques, including effective questioning, objection handling, and engaged promotions.
  
• Experience in launching and managing paid digital advertising campaigns in Ads and other digital marketing platforms.
• Experience working with channel business, advertisers, agencies, or clients.
  
• Ability to manage and prioritize a portfolio in an advertising or businesses media context, and achieve goals to drive growth.
  
• Ability to build compelling narratives and utilize storytelling as a client engagement strategy.
  

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.