Google Looking For Strategy and Operations Associate, Marketing at Mountain View, CA Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

1 year of work experience in consulting, investment banking, and/or corporate strategy.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience with rigorous analytical problem solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to executive management.

Experience working in complex organizations, working across boundaries and developing strong organizational relationships.

Tolerance for ambiguity and ability to work in a fast-changing environment.

Demonstrated capacity for developing and understanding business strategy.

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.

Strategy and Operations is made up of business thinkers who work closely with Google’s Marketing leadership to set strategic goals and drive business growth.

As a part of the Strategy and Operations team, you will engage regularly with leadership to establish Marketing’s strategic direction, getting broad exposure to Google’s business. In this role, you will become a trusted source of advice and an essential partner to executives across our products.

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, and SVP level deliverables.

Work across Google’s products to develop solutions to the organization’s toughest strategic challenges and initiatives.

Establish Marketing’s priorities and conduct data-driven business analytics to support and make recommendations on strategy and investment.

Improve efficiency and effectiveness by applying a diligent 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.

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