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 Practice Customer Solution Specialist specializing in
Oracle databases, you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as a technical expert responsible for accelerating technical wins and adoption of complex, specialized workloads. You will leverage your deep expertise in our most strategic product areas, in partnership with platform solution specialists, to write code to develop prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and demos to sell new, highly specialized solutions to customers.
In this role, you will use your excellent organizational, communication, and presentation skills, engaging with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will blend sales prowess, market knowledge, and technical engagement to prove the value of 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 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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits
Canada: $194000 - $198000 (CAD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Drive the technical solution for complex workloads within Oracle product areas to ensure rapid and successful adoption, primarily supporting the business cycle from technical evaluation through customer ramp.
- Combine business strategies with direct development and prototyping to provide functional, customer-tailored solutions that secure buy-in from customer domain experts.
- Provide deep technical consultation to customers, acting as a technical advisor and building lasting customer relationships.
- Leverage learnings from customer engagements to contribute to reusable solutions and assets with the go-to-market team.
- Work within product development systems to document, prioritize, and drive resolution of customer feature requests and issues.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
- Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
- Experience in Oracle technologies, database architecture, and database infrastructure.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with virtualization or containerization platforms and migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
- Experience building business partnerships with partners and customers in an architecture or solution delivery role.
- Experience conducting partner technical engagements along with excellent communication skills.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
New York, NY, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Addison, TX, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Reston, VA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Toronto, ON, Canada; Cambridge, MA, USA.
Applicants in Canada: This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.
Applicants in Colorado: The application window will be open until at least August 07th, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.
Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees.
Benefits for this role include:
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year