Google Hiring for Global Strategy and Operations Manager, Marketing at Mountain View, CA Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy/business strategy/strategy and operations/business operations, venture capital/private equity, or equivalent.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or other advanced degree.
- Experience in a role requiring impeccable business judgment, excellent analytical problem solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to executive management.
- Experience coaching or managing team members; ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence executive managers.
- Experience with organizational design work.
- Tolerance for ambiguity and ability to work in a fast-changing environment, with an entrepreneurial approach.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
About the job
Strategy & Operations (S&O) professionals in Google’s Marketing organization provide business critical insights and analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. Whether you are embedded within a specific marketing team to use insights to enable better marketing decisions or the global S&O function to equip the organization to succeed at scale, you will engage with Google leadership in order to establish Marketing’s strategic direction. You will manage planning and operational processes and work cross-functionally with key partners across Marketing, Product, Finance and Engineering to solve our toughest challenges, advocate for high-priority projects, and drive greater operational excellence within Marketing.
To be successful in this role, you have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, effective quantitative and communication skills, and the ability to take on broad-reaching and ambiguous questions while working collaboratively and cross-functionally with Googlers of all levels.
You will engage regularly with Google’s Marketing leadership team to get broad exposure to our entire business and establish strategic direction. You will work with teams in all Google geographies and collaborate cross-functionally with leaders across Marketing, Product, Finance, and People Operations to solve our toughest challenges, drive high-priority projects, and achieve greater operational excellence within Marketing. You will become a trusted advisor and essential partner to executives across our products.
You must have strong business acumen and operational aptitude as well as exceptional people / communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with Googlers of all levels. You should have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, strong quantitative skills, and comfort addressing broad-reaching and ambiguous questions.
Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google’s products solve the world’s problems-from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can-changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.
Responsibilities
- Partner with leadership to set Marketing’s annual strategic plan globally, articulating Marketing’s most critical priorities, and corresponding investment. Develop CEO / CFO / CMO / SVP level deliverables.
- Work across Google’s products to develop solutions to the organization’s toughest strategic challenges and initiatives.
- Improve Marketing efficiency and effectiveness by applying a rigorous approach to Marketing’s operational processes.
- Evaluate Marketing performance / impact and make data-driven recommendations for how to adjust our approach to reach our ambitious goals.
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.