Google Hiring for Business Strategy Lead, Central Strategy and Operations at Mountain View, CA Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8 years of experience in a strategy consulting firm, corporate strategy, equity research, corporate finance, or equivalent experience
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or equivalent experience
- Experience in the consumer hardware/electronics industry or experience in equivalent B2C businesses
- Experience partnering on cross-functional projects or teams, with the ability to influence without formal authority
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to communicate insights to executive audiences
- Excellent analytical, quantitative and qualitative problem solving, and project management skills
About the job
We are the Central Strategy and Operations team for Devices and Services. Our mission is to inform better decision-making in Devices and Services with data-driven insights, tools, and processes. We work in two ways: first, by focusing on the portfolio of businesses and advising on specific timely questions (such as go to market and product development); and second, by running some operational processes and tools for Devices and Services, including goal setting and headcount planning. Our work enables Devices and Services Googlers to make radically better products to bring the best of Google to everyone.
In this role, you will work to help the Devices and Services leadership team solve tough challenges. As a Business Strategy Lead, you will lead with data and insights, and create frameworks to solve business issues that span many teams. Additionally, you partner with Devices and Services business units (Pixel, Nest, Fitbit) and functions (Operations, Sales, Marketing) as well as cross-functional teams such as Business Operations to advance cross-functional initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Initiate, partner, and lead long-term strategy projects for the Devices and Services portfolio of businesses
- Inform decisions and design processes related to annual planning, roadmap prioritization, long-term competitive differentiation, and other ongoing business functions – enabling insights and decision-making velocity
- Partner closely with stakeholders such as business unit (e.g., Pixel, Nest) and functional (Marketing, Sales, Operations) teams, Financial Planning and Analysis, and Hardware Business Operations
- Work directly with the Devices and Services Finance leadership to advise on and develop programs to grow team effectiveness and develop culture
- Craft executive communications for audiences; lead other product area-wide initiatives
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