Product Strategy and Operations Lead, Legal Engineering, Core

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 11 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.
• Understanding of the Legal domain.
• 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.

As a Product Strategy and Operations Lead within our Corporate Engineering organization's Legal Engineering pillar, you will report to the Chief of Staff and collaborate extensively with cross-functional leaders in Product Management, Program Management, Engineering, and User Experience. This role focuses on shaping, driving, and sustaining initiatives that directly contribute to the success of the Legal Engineering pillar. You will inform leadership decision-making through strategic insights and data-driven analysis, shape the strategic direction of the Legal Engineering team, and define and execute the go-to-market strategy for our products, ensuring they are successfully applied to enterprise use cases and deliver exceptional customer value.

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

• Lead strategic programs that directly impact team objectives and key results (OKRs), spanning strategy, go-to-market execution, business operations, and communications.
• Develop and articulate strategic narratives, effectively communicating goals, approaches, and outcomes to both leadership and broader organizational teams.
• Define, launch, and drive strategic and investigative initiatives focused on improving internal and external processes and operations, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.
• Identify and mitigate organizational risks, advocating best practices that benefit the wider organization and establishing operating processes and tools for effective management.
• Influence stakeholders and executive management to drive projects to completion, solving identified problems and implementing effective solutions across the organization.