Global Practice Architect, Oracle Solutions, Google Cloud

As a Global Practice Architect for Oracle Solutions on Google Cloud, you will bring your experience and thought leadership and operational mindset to help drive direction, mission, and strategy around the a Oracle Solutions GTM approach. The goals of the Global Practice Architect function are to design and manage the constructions of plays that include a complete GTM bill of materials, as measured by reaching our growth goals for that practice (collection of products) in that fiscal year. The GTM bill of materials will include business assets, orchestration models, propensity modeling, field activation, offers and incentives, business value, partners and services strategy and more. You will orchestrate across numerous contributing teams including solutions, services, partners, product engineering, marketing, and GTM stakeholder organizations in Regional and Global teams, including peer Practice Architects supporting other products within the same practice area, to facilitate the design, implementation and refinement of the overall strategy. The Global Practice Architect is accountable for the strategy, construction and management of the plays they manage in their practice area.

You will showcase excellent leadership capabilities and strategic thinking by designing and orchestrating the right model for Google Cloud’s objectives and the current market landscape. You will partner with key cross-functional stakeholders to develop and iterate on the plan. You will interface directly with customers, both helping them to understand Google Cloud’s offerings and gathering their feedback. Finally, you will recommend ways to adapt as the market and customer needs change.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.

Responsibilities

• Own the construction and implementation of our Oracle Solution GTM.
• Drive the decision-making by leveraging analysis and insights, aligning project portfolios and Go-to-Market (GTM) plans with company strategy to achieve growth goals.
• Support the design and implementation of integrated GTM blueprints across the full ecosystem (industries, solutions, partnerships, services, enablement, compensation), collaborating with Practice Lead to balance efficiency and growth.
• Oversee the Oracle Solutions GTM portfolio, continuously monitoring business performance, diagnosing issues, and recommending new approaches based on results and data-driven insights.
• Conduct ongoing research and benchmarking to incorporate industry best practices, providing insights and recommendations to Practice Lead to inform strategic alignment.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of technical or GTM planning experience in Cloud or Oracle Solutions in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with the Database Market or ISV Partnerships.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with content creation and narrative development.
• Experience selling Cloud products.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, import or export talent and ideas to achieve the organizational goals.
• Ability to learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud or IT technology space.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year