Product Operations Partner, Core, Headcount and Hiring Operations

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 in managing the planning cycle for an organization with cross-functional engagement and prioritization.
• Experience delivering program outcomes that achieve business goals and drive measurable impact.
• Experience performing data analysis to identify key insights and inform decision-making.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Experience communicating effectively with cross-functional teams to drive project initiatives and achieve shared objectives.
• Experience with headcount management tools and leading operational/strategic initiatives.
• Experience overseeing annual planning mechanics (e.g., headcount, operational expenditure) for a product or technology area.
• Excellent influencing skills and change management experience with the ability to successfully manage complexity and multiple priorities.

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 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

• Help launch a more formal go-to-market approach to pillar engagement and partnerships across multiple Product Areas. Serve as a primary Point of Contact for assigned Pillars to ensure deeper, consistent engagement.
• Establish and lead operating processes such as managing the end-to-end processes for tasks such as incremental reserve headcount requests from the pillars, including trade requests.
• Manage the pillar headcount plan change process end to end, including clarifying the tracking and governance aspects.
• Establish a pillar headcount and hiring operations maturity model that can be used to guide Pillars toward best practices and benchmarking current efforts.
• Explore and address areas of duplication across pillars, analyze best practices from other parts of the company (or within Core, outside Google, etc), and explore other ways to support our pillars and increase operational efficiency across the organization.