Global Product Lead, Global Business Strategy

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience partnering with clients on technical products (e.g., pitching solutions, consulting, project management, implementation, demonstrating products, or technical sales).
• Experience managing complex projects with stakeholders across multiple functions.
• Ability to structure a compelling storyline and build presentation decks/documents to support their position.
• Strategic thinking and problem solving skills with demonstrated ability to lead complex operational and strategic initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills.

About the job

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

The Global Business Strategy (GBS) team helps make Google's complex business organization run smoothly. The group drives core planning activities and develops frameworks to integrate global business strategies across the Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships organizations. Experts in both Google’s go to market organization and the industries where we compete, they drive strategic and operational improvements while working closely with Senior Leadership on a range of critical initiatives and projects. The GBS team is at the forefront of addressing the Business organization’s most strategic priorities, reporting and working directly for Google's Chief Business Officer.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $147,000-$216,000 + 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

• Advocate end-user needs by actively gathering and synthesizing feedback to inform the tools roadmap, ensuring their workflows are represented in product development.
• Contribute to prioritization by analyzing quantitative business cases (e.g., business, productivity) and qualitative data (e.g., interviews, feedback) to articulate clear use cases for Product Management/UX/Engineering partners.
• Author detailed business requirements and co-lead project plans in partnership with Product Management/UX/Engineering on the design and development of user-facing feature launches.
• Contribute to the planning and execution of global launch strategies, including assisting in the development of deployment plans, training materials, and support documentation to drive product and feature adoption.
• Assist in estimating and measuring the business impact of new features, processes, and training using metrics like CSAT, adoption rates, efficiency gains, and business uplift.