Google Hiring for Director, Strategy and Operations, Data Management at Sunnyvale, CA Full Time

About the job

As the Director of Strategy and Operations for the Databases and Analytics organization, you will be responsible for developing strategy across a dynamic set of high performing businesses. You will be a catalyst and critical thought partner, helping scale and transform Data Management across all critical functions, including Product/Engineering, Sales/Go-To-Market, Partnerships, Marketing, Customer Experience, Customer Success and more. You will problem solve with significant breadth and depth, be responsible for identifying/driving strategic initiatives, and lead a team of highly effective strategy and operations professionals.

You will flex across both strategic and operational efforts, lead the strategy creation process, and ensure effective communication, alignment, and execution of the organization’s strategy and roadmap. You will run projects and strategic organizational efforts as well as the overall business cadence. You will partner with executive leadership, their direct reports, and cross-functional Cloud and Google partners to set and communicate strategy and decision-making along with the broader organization.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Manage the planning and execution of major strategic initiatives across the business. Lead the process of defining organization-wide strategies and provide metrics/insights on key business outcomes, driving operational efficiencies and ensuring the strategic vision is clearly communicated across the organization.
• Drive the planning and operational business cadence for Data Management including Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), headcount management, budget management, planning and monthly business reviews.
• Collaborate closely with Data Management leadership and cross-functional teams to define organization-wide strategy and gain alignment across the team.
• Create goals/plans for the organization and key stakeholders. Synthesize major decisions for communication between senior management and within the broader organization.
• Develop, maintain, and update a consistent strategic narrative across all components of the business including scaled communications. Ensure strategy cascades to the broader organization and priorities are aligned.