Google Hiring for Director, Communication and Collaboration Strategy at Mountain View, CA Full Time
Applications will be accepted through October 25, 2021.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of strategy experience encompassing a combination of strategy roles and commercially-oriented practice roles.
- 5 years of experience in the mobile and/or consumer electronics industries.
Preferred qualifications:
- Proven ability to build and manage scaled operations by developing measurement systems, business review cadence, and executive accountability.
- Proven bias towards action and ability to thrive in highly ambiguous matrixed organizations.
- Strategic thinking and demonstrated thought leadership skills when engaging executives.
- Excellent emotional and relationship intelligence.
About the job
The Platforms and Ecosystems (P&E) Partnerships strategy and operations team works to create and drive a cohesive partner strategy within and across the suite of P&E products (Android, Play, ChromeOS, Photos). We understand the partner ecosystem and markets in which the products operate while applying structured analytics and reasoning to help create and execute strategy.
The Communications and Collaboration (C&C) team is responsible for three key product areas at the intersection of P&E and Cloud: Google Workspace, Business Communications, and our Communications Suite. The Partnerships team works closely with a broad range of original equipment manufacturer (OEM), carrier, and enterprise partners to deliver on it’s goals. The Product and Engineering teams work to build and enhance our existing product suite to better serve the needs of users and partners.
As the Director of Communications and Collaboration Strategy, you and your team will work closely with Partnerships and Product VPs to shape an overarching business strategy for these areas. Your team will then work closely with these teams to bring the strategy to life through our partners. You will help set strategies, create metrics-driven approaches, and solve complex ecosystem, partner, and market issues. You will work with cross-functional leaders in Partnerships, Go-To-Market, Marketing, Product, and Finance to ensure strategic, scalable investments for Google.
Google’s Global Partnerships team powers extraordinary user experiences through partnerships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides meaningful solutions — from helping publishers and developers grow their businesses through monetization solutions, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We build and distribute products through partnerships across a multitude of product areas, including Ads, Search & Assistant, Geo, Platforms & Ecosystems, Devices & Services, Health, Retail, Payments, Next Billion Users, and more. We collaborate across Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our most complex and strategic partners.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a team of strategy and operational individuals to provide key support to C&C global management efforts which includes strategy, analytics, and program management.
- Act as the go-to person for VP of C&C Partnerships, providing thought leadership and constant problem solving. Hold a key advisory role for Product and Engineer leadership, including working to solve complicated problems.
- Evaluate activities to help refine strategies and tactics, using these evaluations to justify additional investment and expansion of remit to new markets and products.
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.