QualificationsProject managementAnalysis skillsAnalyticsUXProduct managementBachelor’s degree
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in strategy and analytics intensive roles, such as management consulting, investment banking, product management, or corporate strategy.
Preferred qualifications:
8 years of experience in making improvement in systems, processes, or operations via direct interaction with users/stakeholders.
Experience leading a portfolio of projects in system design, system integration, and organizational/technological transformation.
Experience leading infrastructure development with a focus on analytics and business operations.
Ability to navigate through ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to implement a “right-sized” end-to-end development process (including tooling), that takes a product from concept to adoption/support.
Excellent organizational, project management, and analytical skills.
About the job
Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.
Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with executive leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, Product Managers (PMs), User Experience (UX), and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.
The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
Responsibilities
Identify areas of inefficiency that are business critical and improve them.
Perform market analysis, use case development, and opportunity framing.
Develop technology strategies to address the needs in corresponding business cases.
Collaborate with executive stakeholders, business partners, and technology partners to approve and execute on the strategy.
Work with technology and program management partners to oversee successful implementation and adoption product area wide.
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.