
Director, US Scaled (Ascend) Engage, Commerce, Google Customer Solutions
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Job overview
The Director will partner with the Ascend leadership team to set strategic objectives, lead day-to-day operations, and drive sales performance and customer buy-in. The role leads account teams serving small and medium-sized businesses, coaching them to understand advertisers’ marketing objectives and deliver solutions using Google Ads. The director also represents Google’s values while attracting, developing, and retaining talent.
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Director, US Scaled (Ascend) Engage, Commerce, Google Customer Solutions
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience within a business to business sales-related/business development commercial role.
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15 years of experience in sales and marketing, including leadership in technology, Internet, or media industries.
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5 years of experience in people management and leading geographically-distributed sales teams.
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Ability to travel 30% for conferences, offsites, customer meetings and trainings, as required.
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience as a leader in Go-To-Market Sales, and executing against goals across account portfolios.
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Experience managing managers and fostering career growth for early-career sellers to senior sales professionals.
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Experience as an external thought leader in digital marketing solutions.
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Experience building and mobilizing innovative business growth strategies with operational excellence.
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Ability to communicate, present, and craft compelling narratives to influence internal and external technical and business stakeholders at C-suite levels and across teams at all levels.
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Expertise leveraging AI to improve sales processes, and comfort operating in ambiguity of an ever-evolving product at global scale.
About the job
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.
In this role, you will work with the Ascend leadership team to set strategic objectives that enable business growth and lead the day-to-day operations. You’ll take a data-driven, analytical approach to sales management to drive performance and influence customer buy-in. You'll also lead high-performing account teams by inspiring them to reach for ambitious goals and coaching them on using consultative sales skills to understand our advertisers' marketing objectives to deliver against them using Google Ads. Your knowledge of the SMB landscape and online media, combined with your sales and analytical skills, shapes how customers will grow. You enable your team to act like owners.
At Google, our culture is paramount. You'll represent our values and business practices throughout the organization, focusing on attracting, developing, and retaining top talent. As a business leader, you will drive team engagement, lead transparently, and exemplify respect.
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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $230000 - $320000 (USD) + 80% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Create an inspiring vision and strategy for a team in alignment with GCS America's priorities, including critical initiatives and key performance indicators, while ensuring that the resources are in place to exceed goals and utilize the full power of the Google Platform.
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Hire, retain, inspire, and grow a passionate customer-focused sales team that is successful engaging with high-level client leadership teams.
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Deliver against business goals and drive incremental business growth to accelerate year-over-year growth.
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Own and strengthen executive-level relationships through key C-level meetings, events, quarterly reviews, and speaking engagements.
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Drive cross-functional collaboration and alignment with key partner teams, including MMS counterparts, Marketing, New Business Sales, Finance, Central Strategy, and Large Customer Sales vertical teams.
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,689 open Sales Leadership jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$230–320K/yr
- California median$174–291K/yr248 salary ranges
- US median$155–244K/yr1,978 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $275K, is 16% above the California median midpoint ($237K) — in the middle half of Sales Leadership salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 304 open Sales Leadership jobs in California and 2,689 across the US. 21% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Accenture28 open
- BMO Financial Group8 open
- NVIDIA6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Sales Leadership postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 2,181 postings).
- Education
- 578 of the 2,689 open Sales Leadership jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 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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