Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
- Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
- Experience working with product and engineering teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication 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 key 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 new 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 senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.
The Data Analytics Product Strategy and Operations team is central to setting long-term strategy as well as running the business in the most efficient way. We work across four key pillars such as long-term portfolio and product strategy, analytics and insights, operations (orchestrating running the business cadences as well as planning and managing headcount, operational expenditure), organizational effectiveness.
In this role, you will work closely with product management, engineering, and cross-functional teams (e.g., go-to-market, marketing, finance, enablement) to support portfolio and product strategies for data analytics business, annual and multi-year strategic planning and process optimization. You will contribute to business operations, drive planning, and track key metrics. You will provide data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership, and lead cross-functional projects and organizational effectiveness strategies.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $214,000-$302,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support portfolio and product strategies for data analytics business, including total addressable market definition, goal, differentiation, roadmap.
- Support driving the annual planning (business and resources) cycle, multi-year strategic planning and process optimization.
- Contribute to cadence of running the business, drive planning across prioritized initiatives, define and track key product and business success metrics/Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), support monthly and quarterly business reviews with the product and Go-to-Market (GTM) teams.
- Provide insightful data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership based on analysis, experience, technical acumen, and judgment. Use data expertise and product knowledge to identify growth opportunities. Pursue these opportunities in partnership with function leaders.
- Lead product area-wide, cross-functional projects by structuring and executing analyses required to develop recommendations, communicate findings to executive management.
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.
