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Director, Global Strategic Initiatives

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Compensation
$227–315K/yr
Location
New York, NY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Global Strategic Initiatives Regional Lead is responsible for winning large, complex Google Cloud customers and establishing multi-year partnership and industry transformation visions. The role influences customer and Google executives, aligns leadership around win strategies, and coordinates execution across account teams and business units. It also establishes and scales processes for winning complex customers.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Sales, requiredTeam Leadership, requiredProgram Leadership, nice to haveCustomer Environment Analysis, nice to haveVerbal Communication, nice to haveWritten Communication, nice to haveExecutive Influence, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Analytical Field or Equivalent, required15 Years Sales Cycle Experience, required15 Years Sales Team Leadership, requiredEnglish Proficiency, required

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in an analytical field (Engineering, Finance, Business) or equivalent practical experience.

  • 15 years of experience in $XXXM sales cycles, navigating organizations, and building C-level relationships with enterprise clients, within the technology sector.

  • 15 years of experience leading high performing teams focused on sales.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience leading large-scale programs.

  • Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn, understand and work with complex customer environments.

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

  • Demonstrated influence with C-level executives (Board, CEO, CFO).

About the job

As the Global Strategic Initiatives (GSI) Regional Lead you will carry overall responsibility for winning large and complex Google Cloud customers. You are responsible for establishing a multi-year partnership and industry transformation vision (5-10 years) with strategic customers - and further owns the execution of the “One Google” win with these customers. Externally, you are the senior, stateful business executive in the engagement and is expected to influence the customer Board, CEO and across the customer executive management team. Internally, you will lead coordination and execution with regional account teams, other Google organizations and Google Cloud Leadership including the CEO, global, and regional presidents. Finally, it is expected that you will establish, institutionalize, and scale processes and templates for winning large, complex customers.

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: $227000 - $315000 (USD) + 66.67% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior, stateful business executive responsible for leading and winning large, complex Google Cloud-led account and establish a multi-year partnership vision (5-10 years) with the customer for industry disruption through digital transformation.

  • Establish trusted relationships with and influence external senior leadership (Board, CEO, and executive teams) as well as internal Google executives (SVPs and VPs across business units like Health, Android, Search, Maps, and Ads).

  • Drive strategic alignment between Google leadership (CEO, SVPs/VPs) and customer boards/executives by developing and securing buy-in for high-level win strategies and Google differentiators, and leading executive briefings and verbal presentations.

  • Partner with regional account teams to execute win strategies, pricing models, and risk mitigation plans while aligning cross-functional Google and Alphabet business units around unified deal structures.

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How this job compares

Set against the 2,807 open Sales Leadership jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$227–315K/yr
  • New York median$175–260K/yr167 salary ranges
  • US median$155–244K/yr2,099 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $271K, is 20% above the New York median midpoint ($225K) — in the middle half of Sales Leadership salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 259 open Sales Leadership jobs in New York and 2,807 across the US. 20% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
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 2,288 postings).
Education
596 of the 2,807 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 12, 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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