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Principal Account Executive, Tech B2B, Large Customer Sales

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Compensation
$161–234K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Principal Account Executive will lead Google’s Tech B2B customers through changing buying behavior, turning traditional selling into AI-powered growth. The role partners with executives and clients to understand business needs, develop shared growth plans, pitch Google advertising solutions, measure campaign results, and expand customer partnerships. It sits within Large Customer Sales, which works with leading brands and agencies to drive business performance through Google’s advertising offerings.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Digital AdvertisingConsultative SalesBusiness DevelopmentDigital MarketingAdvertiser Client RelationsGoogle Ad SolutionsSearch AdvertisingVideo AdvertisingTraditional Media AdvertisingDigital Media AdvertisingLeadershipCollaborationMatrixed Team MobilizationAI-Powered SearchValue-Based BiddingShopping AdvertisingYouTube AdvertisingDemand GenDigital Ecosystem Thought LeadershipAnalytical FrameworksMeasurement FrameworksExecutive PitchingEnglish Proficiency

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience11 Years Industry Experience or 8 Years With Advanced Degree

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 11 years of industry experience in digital advertising, consultative sales, business development, or digital marketing, or 8 years of experience with an advanced degree.

  • Experience working with advertisers, agencies, or clients.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with Google Ad Solutions, expertise in Search and Video advertising, and understanding of performer landscape across traditional and digital media advertising.

  • Exceptional leadership and collaboration skills, with experience mobilizing matrixed internal teams.

  • Strong commercial expertise across Google’s AI-powered Search (e.g., AI Max, Value Based Bidding), Shopping, and Video (e.g., YouTube, Demand Gen), paired with thought leadership across the digital ecosystem.

  • Demonstrated ability to drive total opportunity pitches using sharp analytical and measurement frameworks.

  • Proven track record of building trusted advisory relationships and pitching directly to executives.

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.

B2B buying behavior is undergoing the most significant disruption in its history. The traditional, slow-moving B2B funnel—defined by dry 40-page PDFs and cold "Contact Us" forms is officially dead. Modern B2B decision-makers are consumer-grade buyers: they research on YouTube, consult AI search engines, and validate in private chats long before they ever engage a sales rep.

As a Principal Account Executive within TechB2B, you will do more than observe this evolution—you will lead it. You will guide our team and clients through this new landscape, transforming traditional transactional selling into dynamic, AI-powered growth engines.

Google's Large Customer Sales (LCS) teams are strategic partners and industry thought leaders to the world's leading brands and agencies. We continuously challenge how customers think about their business and how Google can support growth. We focus on helping these players navigate profound industry shifts and drive outsized business performance by competitively selling Google's full suite of advertising solutions across Search, YouTube, Measurement, and more. As a member of our LCS team, you'll have the unique opportunity to sell at the forefront of technology, collaborating with executives, influencing market-shaping strategies, and delivering tangible results that significantly impact major global businesses and drive the growth of Google.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $161000 - $234000 (USD) + 75% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Responsibilities

  • Engage and influence key decision-makers, including C-suite executives, building trusted relationships to understand their core business tests and priorities.

  • Lead the development of Joint Business Plans, aligning with customers on ambitious goals and establishing shared accountability to unlock transformative growth opportunities.

  • Design and pitch powerful, data-driven Google solutions tailored to customer needs, leveraging in-depth knowledge of Google’s advertising offerings and compelling storytelling, while effectively navigating objections to secure investment and exceed business goals.

  • Demonstrate Google's value by measuring campaign results against customer objectives and engaged offerings, and sharing data-driven insights that shape customer strategies and reinforce the partnership.

  • Lead the customer's growth trajectory by proactively identifying and cultivating a pipeline of new opportunities, leveraging insights and proven success to expand the partnership.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.

How this job compares

Set against the 12,150 open Account Executive jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$161–234K/yr
  • California median$130–189K/yr1,229 salary ranges
  • US median$110–163K/yr8,765 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $198K, is 22% above the California median midpoint ($163K) — in the middle half of Account Executive salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,536 open Account Executive jobs in California and 12,150 across the US. 15% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Account Executive postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,345 postings).
Education
1,820 of the 12,150 open Account Executive jobs (15%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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