Product Strategy and Operations, Ads and Commerce

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 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 projects.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in product strategy function or supporting product strategy, in evaluating and advancing new product concepts.
• Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
• Experience working with Product and Engineering teams.
• Excellent 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 Product Strategy & Operations team (PSO) is a critical partner to Ads & Commerce product and engineering leadership in developing and supporting the execution of a multi-year strategy for our portfolio of products. We support Ads & Commerce product areas in setting and delivering long-term visions and strategies. Through strong cross-product partnerships, we identify areas to collaborate, then apply objective perspective, business logic and analytical energy to uncover insights, inform strategic decisions, and navigate industry sea changes. We also support the design and implementation of lightweight governance mechanisms and management systems. Our objective is to empower leaders to make high-quality and timely decisions while ensuring resources flow to the highest impact areas with minimal friction.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,000-$174,000 + 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide data-driven recommendations to leadership, based on insights, analysis, experience, technical acumen and business acumen.
• Leverage data analysis to navigate external data sources, articulate hypotheses, build models and synthesize findings into business implications; develop recommendations and communicate findings to Ads and Commerce leadership.
• Evaluate and advance innovative concepts from 0 to 1 (including sourcing ideas, building prototypes, etc.).
• Work independently and grow in an unstructured environment and manage ambiguity.
• Work cross-functionally across the organization, partner with Product, Finance, Data Science and other teams on a variety of growth-focused projects.