Strategy and Operations Lead, gTech

The application window will be open until at least April 16, 2024. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.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:

• MBA or Master's degree.
• Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Experience in analytical and/or go-to-market roles in fields like management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, and strategy and operations roles.
• Experience partnering in a cross-functional environment and working with others collaboratively (e.g., data science, finance, marketing, etc.).
• Ability to leverage data and analytics to deliver insights and recommendations for business direction and priorities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to take complex, ambiguous topics and turn them into compelling narratives for different audiences.
  
  

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.

gTech’s Extended Workforce Solutions team enables product areas to effectively and efficiently scale their outsourced operations while managing risks. Our goal is to enable our partners to make informed decisions to put the right talent in the right locations to deliver the best possible outcomes for their business needs. Our partnership with teams across Google aims to provide an excellent user experience and minimize administrative burden throughout the process. We assist with planning and strategy, and provide tools to support product areas in managing their extended workforce infrastructure. We strike a balance between optimizing engagements and making sure all policies and guidelines pertaining to contingent work are followed.

In this role, you will lead projects and drive impact across key strategic questions for the business. This will require you to simplify and effectively communicate these problems, advocate and challenge stakeholders, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across the business. You will lead and manage multiple work streams, projects, and stakeholders across time zones on a global scale.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. 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

• Own and lead complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives for Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS).
• Identify and structure business problems and effectively communicate core issues.
• Drive the execution of multiple initiatives simultaneously, preempt, and resolve potential issues and concerns.
• Launch and land organizational change management plans for mid- to long-term initiatives.
• Communicate, engage, and collaborate with partners across Google, ranging from product areas, cross-functional partners, working team members, and senior leadership.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .