Principal, Specialized Software, AI, Office of the CTO

Description

Small teams, operating with context, empowerment, and access to the world’s most promising technology, often create the breakthroughs that define markets.
For the last 8 years, the Office of the CTO (OCTO) in Google Cloud has leveraged this insight, combined with the direct sponsorship of the Cloud CTO and CEO, to help our most strategic customers transform their organizations using small, adaptable teams and methods, while concurrently supporting our internal collaborators as they take these early technology proof points and build them into scaled products and platforms.
As a Principal Engineer within the Office of the CTO in Google Cloud, you will create and reinforce the human pathways between Google Engineering and our most strategic customers and partners, allowing all of us to start from loosely defined, potentially transformative market opportunities and convert them into new, technology-enabled businesses. You will help our customers create their future and help us create the future of Google by continuously tuning our innovation system and products to the needs of the world’s most complex enterprises.
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.

Roles and Responsibilities

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in software, hardware, or infrastructure engineering, with a focus on technical innovation and engineering leadership.
• Experience in building AI products.
• Experience leading and directing strategic initiatives without authority.
• Experience coaching executive technical leaders and senior practitioners on cloud and AI adoption, leverage, benefits, and pitfalls.
• Experience transitioning first-of products to scaled products and platforms, impacting the product and business strategy of an organization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in an AI related field.
• Experience as a recognized expert in the field of AI, with examples of products, platforms, or experiences built with AI at their core.
• Experience as an entrepreneur or in a startup within a larger organization.

Responsibilities:

• Create and reinforce the human pathways between Google Engineering and our strategic customers and partners, allowing all of us to start from loosely defined, potentially transformative market opportunities and convert into new, technology-enabled businesses.
• Partner with Engineering and Product teams to identify and test strategic, horizontal opportunities for differentiation across roadmaps.
• Identify future state-of-cloud products and partner closely with technical teams to chart how we’d bring those future states to life.
• Help our most strategic customers and partners work through the complexity of adopting cutting edge cloud and AI technologies through expert advice.
• Inspire others to work through difficult and disruptive endeavors through sharing experiences, successes, failures and the human side of advanced technology development and adoption.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

• Health and wellness : Keeping Googlers healthy is our priority.
• Financial wellbeing : Providing compensation and programs that give our employees financial peace of mind.
• Flexibility and time off : The time you need to recharge, and the flexibility to get your best work done.
• Family support and care : How we support your loved ones.
• Community and personal development : Providing room and opportunities to grow on your own and with your teammates.
• Googley extras : Programming, spaces, and resources to support your growth, productivity, and wellbeing.