Full-Time

Security Sales Specialist

Sled, Google Public Sector

Google

Google

10,001+ employees

Tech giant offering search, ads, cloud

Compensation Overview

$138k - $201k/yr

+ Bonus Target + Equity

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Cambridge, MA, USA + 3 more

More locations: Raleigh, NC, USA | Durham, NC, USA | New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid role: in-office in Raleigh, Durham, or Cambridge; remote option in New York, NY.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Lead Generation
Salesforce
Google Cloud Platform

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Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in enterprise sales, in the Public Sector.
  • Experience with state local and higher education software sales.
  • Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.
Responsibilities
  • Construct and execute an effective territory development plan, promote security products to new and existing security customers, meeting or exceeding quarterly goals.
  • Develop and drive pipeline, managing cycles, from lead generation to customer onboarding.
  • Build and maintain relationships to influence long-term strategic direction, act as a trusted advisor to the account.
  • Partner with Marketing, Customer Engineering, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Customer Success, Channels and Product, and Engineering teams to represent the customer and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.
  • Lead Google Cloud Security sales in covered territory, serve as stakeholder to regional Cloud leads, reporting current, accurate and timely forecasting, and business performance in Salesforce and other tools.
  • As a Security Sales Specialist, you will help us grow our cyber security business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing SLED customers in the dedicated region. You will work with customers to deliver business value, demonstrate product functionality, and provide a comprehensive overview of key business use cases. You will lead day-to-day relationships with external customer stakeholders, leading with empathy, while identifying innovative ways to multiply the impact of the team as a whole. You will partner with internal Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Sales teams to grow their security businesses and drive overall value for GCP.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience carrying and exceeding business goals in a sales role.
  • Experience supporting long-term executive relationships, and developing territories/accounts in state local government and education sector in supported territory.
  • Experience prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based sales activity within complex sales cycles, including qualifying high value accounts and leveraging our partner ecosystem.
  • Experience working with internal/external teams, including account teams, technical leads, procurement, and legal, to inventory existing software estate, build business cases for transformation with implementation plans, and close agreements.
  • Knowledge of market trends, products, and solutions in Cloud and cybersecurity.

Google provides internet services and products, including a widely used search engine and a large ecosystem of tools for individuals and businesses. It works by processing user queries and ranking results with relevance and personalized data, while its advertising platforms show targeted ads to users. Its products span cloud computing (Google Cloud), productivity software (Google Workspace), and hardware like Pixel phones and Nest devices, all connected through data and machine learning. Its goal is to organize the world’s information so it is universally accessible and useful, while supporting a sustainable business model built on ads and a growing software, cloud, and hardware portfolio.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Founded

1998

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Search dominance preserves high-value ad inventory and targeting precision.
  • Cross-selling across Workspace and Cloud can deepen enterprise lock-in.
  • Hardware and Android strengthen ecosystem stickiness and recurring service usage.

What critics are saying

  • Answer engines reduce search clicks, shrinking monetizable ad inventory.
  • Antitrust remedies could restrict adtech integration and default-placement deals.
  • Cloud rivals can outspend Google on AI infrastructure and enterprise contracts.

What makes Google unique

  • Google Search still anchors massive intent-driven advertising revenue.
  • Google combines Search, YouTube, Cloud, Workspace, Android, and hardware.
  • Google.org supports climate data infrastructure through grants like electricityMap.

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