Account Executive, Financial Services

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of industry experience in digital advertising, consultative sales, business development, or digital marketing, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience working with advertisers, agencies, or clients.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional teams to drive complex, ambiguous enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Deep financial acumen with the ability to analyze P&L statements, unit economics, and margin profiles to build robust business cases for large-scale investments.
• Strategic thought leadership with a history of architecting multi-year business growth strategies and leveraging digital ecosystems to accelerate market share.
• Exceptional executive presence, communication, and storytelling skills, with the ability to distill complex problems into actionable board-level narratives.
• Proven track record of building trusted-advisor relationships with C-suite executives (CEOs, CFOs, CMOs) and navigating highly matrixed Fortune 500 organizations.

About the job

Businesses of all shapes and sizes rely on Google’s unparalleled advertising solutions to help them grow in today's dynamic marketing environment. You bring a passion for sales, knowledge of online media, and commitment to maximize customer success. You act like an owner, move with velocity through change, finding innovative and strategic ways to consistently deliver extraordinary and incremental outcomes for both Google and your customers. You build trusted relationships with customers, uncovering their business needs and translating them into powerful solutions to achieve their most ambitious goals. You achieve as a team with sellers, shape the future of advertising in the AI-era, and make a real impact on the millions of companies and billions of users that trust Google with their most important goals.

In this role, you will manage a portfolio of Google's most complex clients as a strategic leader as we need an executive strategist who can walk into a Fortune 500 boardroom and reverse-developer a client's business model and diagnose systemic growth challenges. You will architect multi-year transformation roadmaps, leveraging Google's multi-billion dollar advertising ecosystem as the critical engine to accelerate and execute that growth.

Ready to shape the future of enterprise business in Canada? This role offers a unique opportunity to partner with industry-leading corporations, driving significant cross-channel business transformation.

Google's Large Customer Sales (LCS) teams are strategic partners and industry thought leaders to the world's leading brands and agencies. We continuously challenge how customers think about their business and how Google can support growth. We focus on helping these players navigate profound industry shifts and drive outsized business performance by competitively selling Google's full suite of advertising solutions across Search, YouTube, Measurement, and more. As a member of our LCS team, you'll have the unique opportunity to sell at the forefront of technology, collaborating with executives, influencing market-shaping strategies, and delivering tangible results that significantly impact major global businesses and drive the growth of Google.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Canada: $172000 - $176000 (CAD) + 60% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Build and manage relationships with C-level clients and senior partner stakeholders, and develop a comprehensive understanding of their business challenges, marketing objectives, and success metrics.
• Structure a clear, long-term joint strategy between Google and clients, and lead a cross-functional team within Google to collaborate on projects and drive client success.
• Plan for, and achieve, growth goals, through the presentation of Google advertising products/solutions that will help clients to meet their marketing objectives.
• Develop forward thinking, data-driven analyses and consultative recommendations that align with customer goals, and quantify high-impact opportunities with clear recommendations to present to customers.
• Establish an in-depth knowledge of how Google Advertising products work and can be used to help meet a wide range of marketing objectives.