Innovation Consultant, Google Cloud Public Sector

About the Job

As a part of the Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team, you will guide customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help them grow. You will help customers transform and evolve their capabilities through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of critical national infrastructure.

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

• Lead visioning and ideation to drive public sector innovation, while owning the end-to-end life-cycle of complex, high-stakes programs of work.
• Translate complex technical concepts into executive-level mission value and influence executive stakeholders to adopt new ways of thinking.
• Build strategic roadmaps and models to quantify the mission impact, operational efficiency, and value-for-money of AI transformation.
• Establish human-in-the-loop touchpoints and governance frameworks for a hybrid workforce of agents and people in highly regulated environments.
• Conduct process discovery to identify unarticulated needs and create compelling product goals tailored to government operations.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience delivering cloud innovation programs.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, a Security Check (SC) UK security clearance.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in developing public sector business cases and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis, aligning technology costs to public value metrics and government procurement standards.
• Experience in a product manager role owning the end-to-end life-cycle of a data-intensive enterprise product, including an AI/ML platform or automation system.
• Experience in the central government or the defense sector, with the ability to apply technology to drive mission-critical outcomes.
• Knowledge of AI (Predictive, Generative, Agentic), with the ability to translate technical concepts into executive-level business value.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with government, defense, and technology audiences.

Additional Information

Must be a British citizen to meet compliance and security clearance requirements.