Google Nigeria Recruits Technical Account Manager

Google's Publisher & Distribution Solutions (PDS) team makes sure that our external partners are able to grow their business with the full support of Google's products. Technical Account Managers are advertising and technology mavericks who serve as liaisons between our biggest partners and Google's Engineering and Sales teams. They handle the partner relationship from pre-sale to post-implementation -- from negotiations through multi-product integrations and on to daily support for products like AdSense, AdMob, DoubleClick, Chrome and many others. Technical Account Managers not only serve as Google gurus but also identify new opportunities where our products can better help our partners’ businesses. Our suite of products is growing and PDS Technical Account Managers help us understand exactly what our partners need.

Our relationships with external partners should run like well-oiled machines, and Google's publisher & Distribution Solutions (PDS) team, within gTech, makes that happen. PDS's Technical Account Managers are online advertising & technology consultants and liaisons between our top partners and Google's Engineering, Product and Sales teams. This role spans both pre-sales and post-sales: you participate in deal negotiations and you flawlessly lead implementations and integrations for a variety of our product lines. We also provide end-to-end support to our publisher partners, from deployment to ongoing support of daily business. As the technical expert, you work closely with the partner Sales teams to monitor our products' performance for our top clients, develop tools that address their technological and business needs and identify opportunities that scale and grow Google's partner business. The suite of Google Products where our expertise is engaged include: DoubleClick Ad Serving Technologies including DFP and Yield Optimisation; AdSense, AdMob and Web Search Syndication; Distribution of Google Services such as Chrome.

Job Title: Technical Account Manager, Publisher and Distribution Solutions
Lagos, Nigeria

Employment type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Identify, drive, and optimize the revenue flow from partners and ad-networks by leveraging Google technologies.
• Guarantee the technical aspects of your client integrations (both new and ongoing) by providing necessary documentation and technical guidance.
• Analyze and optimize the development of existing clients to ensure their success with the Google suite of products for partners.
• Help partners in their day to day challenges by delivering innovative and scalable solutions to their problems and troubleshooting their issues.
• Assist clients in the adoption of new products via upgrades and migrations to develop their long term success.

Minimum qualifications

• BA/BS degree in software engineering or related field (in lieu of degree, relevant skills or valuable equivalent experience).

Preferred qualifications

• Strong troubleshooting skills in common web technologies, such as XML, HTML and HTML5, JavaScript, Flash.
• Fluency in French and English and at least one another African language.
• Good scripting language knowledge such as Bash, Python, PHP.
• Collaboration skills for working across geographically dispersed functions.

Area
The Google Technical Services (gTech) team serves as the primary point of contact for our global Sales, Business Development, and Partnerships teams to support our sales organization across all products. We provide tools so that our sales teams can focus on generating revenue and leverage our strong relationships with Googles Tech teams to enable our sales organization to do multi-solution selling, launch and support new products, and help and engage our users.

Application DEADLINE: 31st May, 2013

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should
click here to apply online