YouTube screenshot Jeff Jennings, vice president of customer engineering at Google Cloud
- Jeff Jennings, vice president of customer engineering at $4, is leaving the company after less than two years.$4
- Jennings joined VMware in 2000, when it was still just a startup - and rose to become a key executive in the growing networking business. When Jennings joined Google, it stoked concerns that other VMware executives could follow.
- He joined Google Cloud when it was still being led by Diane Greene, who had previously cofounded VMware.
- This departure comes shortly after $4 how it would compensate its sales employees, under new CEO Thomas Kurian, who took the reins earlier this year.
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Google Cloud is losing a vice president, Business Insider has learned.
Google staff were informed earlier this week of the departure of Jeff Jennings, vice president of customer engineering at $4 according to people familiar with the situation. He was at Google Cloud for a year and seven months, according to LinkedIn, starting in early 2018.
Prior to his post at $4, Jennings served in several executive positions at $4, where he worked for 18 years. He started at VMware in 2000, just two years after the company was founded, and wound up as a key executive in its growing networking business.
When Google first hired Jennings, it stoked concerns that more VMware engineers could follow, as $4 when he made the move last year.
At the time of his hiring, he worked once again under $4, the former $4 CEO who had previously co-founded VMware. However, earlier this year, Greene officially departed Google, and was replaced as Google Cloud CEO by Thomas Kurian, formerly of Oracle.
Read more: Google Cloud has changed how it pays its salespeople, ripping a page out of the Oracle playbook>$4
Within $4, customer engineers work with sales, product and engineering teams. They help the sales teams solve technical issues for customers and introduce the $4 to customers by explaining technical features. They also help product and engineering teams come up with product enhancements.
Jennings' departure comes shortly after $4 changed how its salespeople would be compensated>$4, aligning more with Oracle and SAP to have a greater focus on commissions. This change was made under Google Cloud CEO $4 and $4, its global customer operations president, as Business Insider previously reported.
Google did not comment on this story. We've reached out to Jennings and will update if we hear back.
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