Google Cloud Customer Growth

In mid-2018, after facing challenges growing the user base at BloomText, I realized the critical importance of customer growth—especially for enterprise clients. Driven to learn more, I joined the Customer Growth and Engagement team at Google Cloud, which aligned perfectly with my goal.

In this role, I worked closely with researchers and Sales & Marketing teams, collaborating with various stakeholders throughout the sales cycle. Together, we created end-to-end customer blueprints to help partner teams understand key pain points and opportunities across the customer journey.

This work led to several new platform features, such as an enhanced Google Cloud support experience, a redesigned sign-up flow, in-console chat with sales, and refined email marketing experiences.

Category
Growth
Cloud
B2B
Product strategy
Company
Google Cloud
Role
Design Lead
Goal
Increase revenue,
conversion
Project Duration
12 months

Situation

Low customer conversion funnel

Actions

Google Cloud sales blueprint – Offline sales

* The Blueprint is blured out due to sensitive marketing & sales data.

I teamed up with the research team created this blueprint to present how in person sales touch customers go through their onboarding journey (up to 2 years). Finding insights through interviewing regional sales representatives, learning from their top pain points and and brainstorming ideas over workshop. One of the finding we found was we were not clearly separating “ Sales contact” & “Contact Support”, people in the brainstorming were sharing their stories of losing multi million dollar deals because of that. So a easy but high impact fix was implemented by adding clear regional sales contact CAT in console.

Google Cloud sales blueprint – Online sales

* The Blueprint is blured out due to sensitive marketing & sales data.

A map was created for small business & individual users who self starts online.  We discovered a list of Users' top concerns that stoping them from signing up Google Cloud, a list of principles and guideline were created.

For example, over half of the potential customers drop at when users need to providing payment information during their journey, by investigating into that one step, and multiple rounds of design refinement, the drop rate at that step was significantly reduced.

Featured Solutions

Improve 2nd product adoption

Working with a data analyst to monitor drop rates and usage frequency across flows and pages gave me a clear view of each flow's performance. This allowed us to quickly identify where users were dropping off and focus on specific areas.

For example, a low adoption rate of our second product indicated that users weren’t exploring products from the landing page. After interviewing users and analyzing CTA click rates, we discovered that users missed the main product menu. By adding a callout UI for new users, we solved the issue, resulting in an annual revenue increase of over $12 million.

Help users to start using the products

GCP Getting Started experience

Chat with sales bot and sales agent with 1 click

Support experience was the second most common complaint from GCP users. While gathering user insights by connecting with various teams, we discovered an AI support bot that had already been built but was deprioritized due to a past re-org. We teamed up with the original team, repurposed the bot, and proposed it as a solution to improve the support experience. Ultimately, we successfully launched the feature.

GCP Customer support redesign

The support team lacked a dedicated design team and was split into three groups, each with different vendors managing specific support topics. To improve and unify the support experience, I collaborated with stakeholders through design sprints to create a new left navigation menu that consolidated all support types. A/B testing showed positive results, with a 10% increase in user satisfaction.