Google Cloud Sales Specialist (m/f/d)

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

As a Google Sales Specialist, you will drive the growth of the Google + NetApp Cloud Storage business across Germany and the broader DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). This is a quota-carrying role focused on expanding an existing customer base, driving new workloads, and selectively acquiring new customers.

You will accelerate Google Cloud adoption and storage-led transformation by working directly with enterprise customers and leveraging the partner ecosystem, including Google Cloud Marketplace, SIs, and ISVs. The role operates in a mature, highly regulated market, with a strong focus on data sovereignty and compliance (sovereign cloud).

Key Responsibilities:
Grow and expand enterprise accounts through new workloads, use cases, and business units
Build and manage a strong pipeline, driving deals from origination to close
Drive Google Cloud consumption through modernization, migration, and data/AI use cases
Engage C-level and senior stakeholders across business and IT
Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles typical in Germany
Position solutions across:
Data modernization & hybrid/multi-cloud
AI/ML and data-driven applications
High-performance workloads (incl. EDA where relevant)
Work closely with Google Cloud, partners, and ecosystem players to scale impact
Address data sovereignty, security, and regulatory requirements
Provide market feedback to support GTM and product strategy.

Job Requirements

10+ years of enterprise sales experience in Germany (DACH)
Proven track record of meeting/exceeding quota and growing business in existing accounts
Strong experience in complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles
Solid understanding of cloud and data solutions (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
Experience driving account expansion, pipeline creation, and new logo acquisition
Background in working with partners (SIs, ISVs, channel, marketplace models)
Understanding of regulated industries, data sovereignty, and compliance requirements
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Fluent in German and English
Entrepreneurial mindset with strong ownership and execution focus

Education

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.

Submitting an Application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.