Strategy and Operations Lead, Core, Special Projects

Strategy and Operations Lead, Core, Special Projects corporate_fare Google place Sunnyvale, CA, USA ; New York, NY, USA bar_chart Advanced Advanced Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain. info_outline

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By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 15 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.

Preferred qualifications:

Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience. 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. In this role, you will act as a lead builder who doesn't just identify problems but designs the systems, frameworks, and coalitions necessary to solve them. You will flex between long-term initiatives and day-to-day operational excellence, and seamlessly transition from crunching the numbers to partnering with executive stakeholders on global issues. You will serve as a key organizational advisor with a heavy bias for action. You will use your process expertise to reduce risk, increase efficiency, and accelerate business strategy. Responsibilities Define the what, why, and how for high-priority initiatives by conducting feasibility studies, pressure-testing concepts with cross-functional teams, and delivering the execution blueprints required to transition and scale new business opportunities. Deliver predictive industry research and data-driven resource allocation frameworks to guide executives while identifying and resolving operational silos between product, sales, and finance to ensure commercial success. Design high-velocity team topologies and north star metric frameworks for ambiguous special projects. Audit execution against strategy to improve alignment and reduce cognitive load across the organization. Serve as a confidential executive advisor and mediator, synthesizing data into cohesive board-level narratives and using objective reasoning to resolve cross-functional deadlocks and unblock high-priority initiatives.