Product Strategy and Operations Lead, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 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:

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
  
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• Knowledge in statistics (e.g., probability theory, hypothesis testing, regressions).
• 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.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is changing the way the world uses cloud computing by exposing infrastructure and solutions to companies of all sizes. The Google Cloud Margin Optimization team covers all GCP products (e.g., IaaS and PaaS), and the entire value chain (e.g., business, product, capacity, supply chain and data centers).

In this role, you will focus on driving the strategic analyses, insights, and deep dives that will improve product demand planning, NPI region selection and footprint optimization, and infrastructure demand strategy and prioritization.

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 $144,000-$211,000 + 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

• Identify problems and issues across the organization and define/lead programs and processes to solve them.
  
• Influence team members and executive management to act and drive projects to completion.
  
• Establish and lead operating processes and tools for managing the organization and achieving goals.