Google Looking For Strategy and Operations Associate, News Partnerships at New York, NY Full Time

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

5 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, global business operations, or equivalent.

Preferred qualifications:
MBA or Master’s degree.

Experience building and leading operational and strategic initiatives, managing stakeholders, and running multiple projects or work-streams simultaneously.

Experience influencing and collaborating with stakeholders in a matrixed organization.

Experience with sales, partnerships, and/or business development organizations.

About the job

Our Global Alliances, Strategy and Operations team leads development of Google’s most complex partnerships. In this Product Partnerships role, you will help craft Google’s overall affiliate strategy and work with internal product teams, aligning our partnerships with business objectives. This includes analyzing partnership relationships, conducting competitive assessments and coordinating with multiple product teams including Chrome, Social, Knowledge, Android and YouTube.

News Partnerships (NP) manages partnerships for Google’s News’ products and programs. News Partnerships Strategy and Operations works with News Partnerships’ leadership team to develop partnership and program strategies, build and align operating priorities, and drive global execution. We are critical thinkers, influencers, and leaders with expertise in simplifying complexity and managing scaled programs at pace. In this role, you will partner with the News Partnerships team to develop and drive global operating processes, practices and tools for the organization. You will play a critical part in driving alignment on priorities and goals across product and program teams, surfacing key business insights to drive operational efficiency and effectiveness, and collaborating with cross-functional teams on strategic initiatives.

Google’s Global Partnerships team powers extraordinary user experiences through partnerships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides meaningful solutions — from helping publishers and developers grow their businesses through monetization solutions, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We build and distribute products through partnerships across a multitude of product areas, including Ads, Search & Assistant, Geo, Platforms & Ecosystems, Devices & Services, Health, Retail, Payments, Next Billion Users, and more. We collaborate across Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our most complex and strategic partners.

Responsibilities

Work with the News Partnerships team to build and execute their global operating processes and cadence, including annual planning, resource allocation, monitoring/reporting business performance, and objectives and key results (OKR) tracking.

Design and drive processes to capture organization activities (e.g., top priorities, recent achievements, upcoming milestones), and share through various channels (leadership updates, etc.).

Track and analyze staffing and headcount data in order to support decision-making.

Manage strategic initiatives in collaboration with multiple teams across partnerships, finance, policy, marketing, and communications.

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