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Key Account Executive, Google Cloud

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Compensation
$147–204K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Key Account Executive serves as an executive seller to strategic Google Cloud enterprises, building relationships with senior customer leaders and acting as a strategic partner. The role leads the end-to-end sales process, develops account strategies, and coordinates internal and external teams to deliver customer commitments and increase consumption. It focuses on consultative value selling and communicating the business value of Google Cloud solutions.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Cloud SalesConsultative Account ManagementStakeholder Relationship BuildingSales Cycle ManagementEnterprise SalesConsultative SellingFinancial Services SalesLead QualificationCloud TechnologyData TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceAccount ExpansionCommercial Agreement NegotiationCross-Functional LeadershipBusiness AcumenFinancial Acumen

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience10 Years Cloud or Software Sales Experience

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 10 years of experience in quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or consultative account management at a B2B software company.

  • Experience engaging and building relationships with a wide range of internal teams and customer stakeholders.

  • Experience managing the full sales cycle (e.g., pipeline management, forecasting, reporting).

  • Experience selling to enterprise accounts, selling a portfolio of products or solutions at the C-level.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with consultative selling to executives in the financial services industry asking questions, presenting future-forward proposals, and building multi-year account strategies and plans.

  • Experience qualifying leads and presenting the value proposition of cloud, data, and AI technologies against customers’ strategic business opportunities and challenges, and showcasing current technology trends and Google Cloud differentiators.

  • Experience supporting large enterprise organizations, expanding existing accounts, securing new customers, and accelerating consumption business.

  • Experience with complex agreements structuring, negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements, and supporting multi-year engagements.

  • Experience leading cross-functional teams and partners in project implementation and negotiation.

  • Excellent business and financial acumen.

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 Key Account Executive (KAE) on the team, you will serve as the executive selling to the most strategic enterprises in Google Cloud. You will leverage existing relationships with CEOs and C-level executives, developing new relationships with business unit leaders to understand their unique company challenges and to influence their perspective of Google solutions. You will be a strategic partner to customers, leveraging consultative value selling methodology to drive long-term business growth. You will do this with a deep industry understanding, communicating the business value of Google while driving shareholder value. You will lead the end-to-end sales process, from initiating customer conversations to orchestrating internal and external teams to deliver business commitments and increased consumption. You will advocate the innovative power of our products and solutions to make organizations more productive, collaborative, and mobile.

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: $147000 - $204000 (USD) + 150% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement sales strategies to surpass business generation goals and build trusted, consultative relationships with customers. Leverage emerging technology trends, market analysis, and knowledge of cloud solutions to showcase how Google Cloud can transform customers' business.

  • Manage and track the sales pipeline, from start to end, ensuring health and accurate forecasting for clear visibility into expected outcomes.

  • Manage complex, multi-year agreements and formulate persuasive proposals that illustrate clear return on investment through customer business cases and comprehensive deployment plans.

  • Mobilize internal experts (Customer Engineering, Partner, Post-Sales) and external partners at the right time to drive consumption and deliver a seamless customer experience.

  • Run and manage complex global account(s) with multiple opportunities across different functions, serving as the primary customer contact for all adoption-related activities.

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How this job compares

Set against the 4,979 open Enterprise Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$147–204K/yr
  • California median$160–250K/yr565 salary ranges
  • US median$139–210K/yr4,023 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $176K, is 13% below the California median midpoint ($202K) — in the middle half of Enterprise Sales salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 690 open Enterprise Sales jobs in California and 4,979 across the US. 22% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Enterprise Sales postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 4,249 postings).
Education
377 of the 4,979 open Enterprise Sales jobs (8%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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