Google Looking for Business Strategy and Intelligence Lead, gTech Go-To-Market at San Francisco, CA Full Time

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or similar.
• Experience in market/competitive intelligence topics, reporting, sources, and integrating secondary and primary research.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree.
• Experience identifying opportunities for business improvement, and defining and measuring the success of those initiatives.
• Experience in the market and research industry and/or buying, identifying, evaluating, and using third-party research and/or managing projects with external management consulting firms.

• Ability to take ambitious topics and create compelling narratives for different audiences using excellent communication skills.
• Ability to understand and articulate the big picture with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to challenge the status quo by educating and inspiring others.

About the job

The Google Technical Services team (gTech) provides technical expertise and services across all Google products to support our global Sales, Business Development, and Partnerships teams. Our mission is to unlock Google’s value for everyone. We advocate for and fix issues on behalf of customers and partners so our sales teams can focus on what they do best. Our solutions are rooted in technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. We collaborate with Google’s engineering groups to raise the bar for Google’s products and services and create technical solutions that enable our sales organization to help our customers’ businesses grow.

As a Business Strategy and Intelligence Lead on the gTech Go-to-Market team, you will help the organization build and leverage a new capability centered around market intelligence and externally sourced insights. You will lead projects that shape our current priorities and long-term strategy. You will work directly with cross-functional leaders, both internally and externally, to structure ambiguous and high-visibility business problems, identify relevant sources, collect and analyze information, identify key trends, benchmarks, and yield compelling insights. You will work in partnership with gTech vertical teams and Go-to-Market colleagues to develop recommendations, align with cross-functional stakeholders and translate your work to implications for the business and executive leadership.

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

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Additional Information

(Colorado only*) Minimum full-time salary range between $119,000 – $128,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation range for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver strategy and research projects, focused on bringing an outside-in perspective and intelligence to teams across gTech.
• Conduct sophisticated research and analysis on market, competitive, and customer trends using both sound analytical insight and good business judgment.
• Act as a subject matter expert of the services and support industry and effectively communicate latest industry trends and insights to executives and key stakeholders.
• Partner with teams across gTech to uncover external intelligence needs, scope, design, and execute on frameworks/methods to support the need, partnering with vendors as needed.
• Triangulate, validate, and summarize key messages across disparate sources, synthesize findings into meaningful insights, and identify opportunities most relevant for the business and various stakeholders.

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