
Forward Deployed Engineer Strategy and Operations Lead, North America
Boulder, COJob$186–269K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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The Forward Deployed Engineer Strategy and Operations Lead partners with Google Cloud teams to plan and run the business and help execute the Global AI go-to-market strategy. The role provides actionable insights to improve forecast accuracy and decision-making, and supports North American operations as the business scales. It works with sales, engineering, finance, product, and regional operations leaders.
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XThe application window will be open until at least November 13, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Austin, TX, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA .
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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8 years of experience in Go-to-Market Strategy, Sales Operations, Strategy and Operations, Management Consulting, Finance, or Program Management.
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Experience with data analysis, generating data-driven insights, using SQL or other analytical approaches.
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Experience in business planning, program management, forecasting, and storytelling through data to facilitate conversations with executive leadership.
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Experience as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, and experience in client management and relationship-building.
Preferred qualifications:
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MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
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Experience tailoring and delivering compelling reporting and presentations by audience, asking strategic questions, and leading conversations that drive results and efficiencies.
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Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and influencing without authority to drive operational excellence, successful delivery of priority initiatives, process improvements, and change management.
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Knowledge of enterprise customers and cloud technologies, products and market landscape.
About the job
As a part of the Google Cloud Go-to-Market Strategy and Operations team, you will act as a trusted advisor, partnering with Sales, Customer Engineering, Finance, Marketing, Partners and Google Cloud Consulting to plan, strategize, and run the business in a transformational way.
As a part of the Cloud AI Tech GTM team, you will be focused on building and executing our Global AI GTM strategy. Your position plays an integral role helping drive the growth of this team and business globally. As part of the AI Strategy and Operations team in the Google Cloud organization, you will partner closely with FDE, AI CE and sales leadership, finance, product, and regional operations teams to provide actionable insights and use a data-driven approach to improve forecast accuracy, sharpen decision making, and drive deep understanding of our fast growing business.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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: $186000 - $269000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Manage the North American AI Tech GTM rhythm-of-business activities, including business reviews, resource allocation, workload reviews, and forecast calls.
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Operationalize the AI Tech GTM team in North America by driving the stand-up of key systems, R&R maps, processes, and tools to support business scaling.
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Orchestrate the end-to-end qualification, technical review, and executive prioritization of all incoming customer Engagement Requests (ERs) across North America.
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Drive continuous operational inspection of active customer engagements across operational projects and assigned Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) to mitigate delivery blockers and harvest repeatable architectural wins.
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Partner with regional AI Sales Specialists, FDE, AI CE, and finance teams to provide inputs into global Cloud AI forecast/review cycles, while collaborating with regional peers on AI Tech GTM planning activities, including blueprint development, metric setting, and territory design.
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,856 open Sales Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$186–269K/yr
- Colorado median$95–143K/yr53 salary ranges
- US median$120–190K/yr1,313 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $228K, is 93% above the Colorado median midpoint ($118K) — in the top quarter of Sales Operations salary ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 62 open Sales Operations jobs in Colorado and 1,856 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- Sinch America Inc.11 open
- Deloitte5 open
- Google (this employer)4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Sales Operations postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,551 postings).
- Education
- 460 of the 1,856 open Sales Operations jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 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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