Product Strategy and Operations Lead, Google Cloud

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees.

Benefits for this role include:

Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance

Retirement Benefits:

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off:

20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment

Sick Time:

40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave:

18 weeks

Holidays:

13 paid days per year

Note:

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 11 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company. Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects. Experience leading programs at enterprise technology software companies.

Preferred qualifications:

Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects. 5 years of experience designing, optimizing and managing operational mechanisms to scale and optimize business functions. Experience working with product and engineering teams. About the job Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google's functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines. Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands. Google Cloud is changing the way the world uses cloud computing. The Infrastructure and Solutions Group (ISG) develops many of the Cloud products, organized into five focus areas - Networking, Storage, Distributed Cloud, CloudExpansion PM, and Reliability Infrastructure PM. In this role, you will be maintaining a broad perspective, and figure things out, advocate for change, own outcomes, work separately and lead teams effectively, and identify opportunities to leverage data and tools to improve business processes. You will lead planning and the rhythms of the business in a way that reduces toil, improves organizational efficiency/effectiveness, and helps the organization run faster/further and stay better aligned to our business strategy, and improves with each new cycle. 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. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $177,000-$257,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities Drive annual planning cycle workstreams, including strategy and resource planning. Lead product area-wide, cross-functional project teams in structuring and executing analyses required to develop recommendations; communicate findings to executive management. Lead multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish; manage project schedules, identify risks, and clearly communicate goals to project stakeholders. Work with cross-functional teams to drive product-specific or ISG-wide strategic initiatives: strategic partnerships, channel strategy and incentives, community/feedback, business Key Performance Indicators (KPI) analytics, business programs, etc. Provide insightful data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership, based on broad understanding of the business insights, analysis, experience, technical acumen, and good judgment. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.