Head of Strategy and Operations

s
Company: Google
Location: Redwood City, CA 94063

Apply

Minimum qualifications:

  • MBA degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in a strategic role in management consulting firms, marketing strategy or corporate strategy roles.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with analytical problem solving, quantitative analysis and communicating findings to management.
  • Demonstrated capacity for developing and understanding strategy.
  • Ability to work across teams, build relationships and influence managers.
  • Ability to work in a fast-changing environment with an entrepreneurial approach.
  • Distinctive problem solving and analysis skills and impeccable business judgment.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.

About the job

Whether you’re on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Chrome, Android) or a business product (Google Ads, AdSense, Google Marketing Platform, Analytics), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product’s journey. From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization and external communications, you help shape the voice of the product and help it grow a consumer base. This means you work with a cross-functional team across Sales, corporate communications, legal, webmasters, product development, engineering and more. In this role, you’ll be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.

As the Head of Strategy and Operations for Large Advertiser and Agency Marketing, you’ll be responsible for driving the marketing strategy for how we engage with advertisers externally and then working cross-functionally to execute it. You’re an exceptional strategic thinker who is savvy about Google Ads products and how our customers think about those products in relation to their business.

Your role is part Strategy and part Operations. You will work with teams and collaborate cross-functionally with key leaders across Marketing, Sales, Finance and Product to solve our toughest challenges, lead high priority projects and drive greater operational rigor.

You have exceptional business strategy and operational expertise and excellent people skills with the ability to communicate and work collaboratively and cross-functionally with Googlers of all levels. In return, the role provides an opportunity to have a deep impact and work closely with cross-functional leaders.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google’s products solve the world’s problems-from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can-changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.


Responsibilities

  • Lead, manage and represent the Large Advertiser and Agency Marketing team through annual and quarterly planning, strategy and execution.
  • Identify and take on ad-hoc strategic projects, everything from defining overall Ads go-to-market strategy to executing cross-functional marketing initiatives. Bring science and data to help establish team’s priorities.
  • Work with Large Advertiser and Agency Marketing Agency Leadership team to coordinate executive-level deliverables. Support the Leadership team.
  • Work with Research and Analytics team and conduct data-driven business analytics to support and make recommendations on strategy and investment.
  • Evaluate and pressure test Large Advertiser and Agency Marketing performance. Identify opportunities to drive program growth and customer engagement and develop data-driven recommendations for leadership. Improve overall operating efficiency and effectiveness by applying a structured approach to operational processes.

At Google, we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. 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 this form.