Technical Success Account Management Lead, Google Cloud Consulting
Google· enterprise· Internet & Cloud Services· Oct 13, 2026 · 15d ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Los Angeles, CA, USA
In office
Full-time
Lead/Staff
$142K–$211K est.
15+ years exp
Job description
As a Technical Success Account Manager (TSAM), you will serve as a strategic technical leader aligned with Google Cloud’s most critical customers. You are responsible for driving sustained platform health, achieving technical excellence, and ensuring stability for key business critical workloads running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
The TSAM serves as the customer’s trusted technical advisor, translating complex business objectives into rigorous technical governance and modern, resilient cloud architectural strategies. You will advocate for adoption of industry best practices and act as the primary point of accountability for resolving platform challenges and proactive risk mitigation, to the satisfaction of executive stakeholders.
This role requires independently forging strong executive relationships, advocating for the implementation of Google Cloud architecture standards, elevating platform stability, and establishing technical accuracy across the customer’s GCP footprint, through a programmatic approach. Additionally, you will serve as the internal customer advocate, translating their strategic needs into actionable feedback for Google Cloud’s Product and Engineering teams, ensuring continuous service improvement and feature development.
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: $224000 - $311000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
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• Establish and lead Technical Governance, focusing on platform health metrics and enterprise readiness planning.
• Provide technical guidance and advocate for the adoption of Google Cloud architecture and best practices via deep dives and workshops.
• Drive platform stability and excellence through deep architectural health assessments.
• Serve as the strategic technical advisor to address and resolve critical reliability concerns, advising on and guiding the architecture of highly robust, scalable, and resilient workloads.
• Act as the internal customer advocate, translating technical obstacles to influence GCP product roadmaps. Own workload success, stabilization, and ongoing optimization to ensure sustained business value.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role.
• Experience with core cloud computing concepts and enterprise architecture principles, including networking (VPC, peering), compute, storage, IT security (IAM, segmentation, encryption), database systems, cloud-native application development, and operational frameworks.
• Experience presenting to technical and executive stakeholders, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience supporting customers in critical cloud operations domains, including launch/capacity planning, product release management, technical support, or formalized escalation management procedures.
Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role.
• Experience with core cloud computing concepts and enterprise architecture principles, including networking (VPC, peering), compute, storage, IT security (IAM, segmentation, encryption), database systems, cloud-native application development, and operational frameworks.
• Experience presenting to technical and executive stakeholders, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience supporting customers in critical cloud operations domains, including launch/capacity planning, product release management, technical support, or formalized escalation management procedures.
Preferred qualifications:
• MBA or Master's degree in a Management, Technical, or Engineering field.
• Relevant technical professional certifications.
• Experience leading technical governance activities, such as establishing or actively participating in Architecture Review Boards (ARBs), or developing reference architectures and reusable patterns for an enterprise organization.
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