Head of Sales – Americas

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Head of Sales leading North American enterprise Data and AI growth for a Google Cloud partner. Building Google Cloud co-selling relationships, pipeline, and high-performing sales teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead and develop a team of vertical-aligned sellers across North America
  • Build a repeatable pipeline of large, multi-year enterprise Data and AI transformations
  • Own and exceed regional bookings and sold gross margin targets
  • Grow existing accounts through account plans and open new logos in priority verticals
  • Build co-selling relationships with Google Cloud North America sales leaders
  • Drive direct market activity alongside Google-sourced leads, including events, campaigns and executive outreach
  • Set go-to-market playbooks for Gaming, Media, Entertainment and Agency, Telco, and Insurance
  • Join discovery calls, qualify opportunities, review proposals and run pre-flight checks on major bids of $750k+
  • Train sellers in consultative and Challenger selling
  • Establish account ownership and run weekly and monthly forecasting cadences using Salesforce
  • Protect margins by selling enterprise ROI rather than discounting
  • Coordinate with presales, delivery and account management teams in Toronto and Montreal
  • Work with vertical and offering-aligned technology squads on presales and deal shaping
  • Partner with alliances and marketing to turn Google relationships and case studies into pipeline
  • Assess, structure, develop, recruit, onboard and retain the North American sales team
  • Work with delivery and technical leaders as part of the regional leadership team

Requirements:

  • Proven experience leading a sales team at a technology consultancy or professional services firm in the Data, AI or Cloud space
  • Experience selling into enterprise accounts across the United States and Canada, ideally in Gaming, Media, Telco or Insurance
  • Strong network across Google Cloud's North America sales organisation and a track record of co-selling with Google Cloud
  • Experience closing and coaching others to close $1M+ multi-year transformation deals
  • Commercial acumen, including ROI, EBITDA, and Capex versus Opex
  • Ability to translate technical Google Cloud Platform capabilities into financial outcomes
  • Operational discipline in forecasting, Salesforce hygiene and account planning
  • Ability to thrive in a scale-up environment
  • Must disclose whether sponsorship is required now or in the future; the company is registered to sponsor

Benefits:

  • Opportunity to build the sales function in North America
  • Inherit a 45-person regional team with delivery, presales and account management
  • Room to shape the sales function and processes
  • Work with leaders in Agentic AI and MLOps
  • Opportunity to develop and retain top sellers
  • Continuous learning culture