Localization Product Strategist, gTech
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in a technical project management or a customer-facing role.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Applied Science, or a related field.
- 8 years of experience managing projects and working with analytics, software coding, or customer-side web technologies.
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role with/without direct reports.
- Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and global environment with proven success in project management, execution and multitasking.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving experience, combined with excellent business judgment and an ability to present to executive decision makers in a clear and compelling manner.
About the job
In gTech Users and Products (gUP), our mission is to advocate for Google’s users by creating helpful and trusted experiences across the product ecosystem. We achieve this by meeting partners and consumers where they are with support and help, representing their needs with our product partners and proposing fixes and features that elevate their engagement with Google's various product ecosystem. Additionally we provide a range of product services that ensure our products are optimized for every user, no matter where they are in the world (e.g., localization, digitization, partner integration, and more).As a part of the Localization Product Strategist (LPS) team, you will serve as a strategic advisor to Product Areas, helping them successfully connect with users across the world. In this role, you will support product teams in strategically planning launches into different markets and provide strategic advice on campaigns and launches that resonate with various, native audiences globally.
As a part of this team, you will be accountable for the successful delivery of both short and long-term localization needs for Product Area stakeholders, applying your Localization Strategy skillset to drive better business outcomes and create various, native user experiences across the product portfolio.
In this role, you will collaborate with International Engineering, Product, UX, and Marketing teams to help Google's ideas and products look, feel and sound natural to users in their own countries, steering products through the localization process and ensuring successful launches across the globe.Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the localization of one or several Google products from inception to launch, managing delivery, cost and quality of projects and overseeing vendor execution.
- Master Localization workflows and services, identifying tool and process needs to enable operational scaling, and partnering with Operations and Engineering to support deployment.
- Construct a compelling case for new business opportunities, develop insightful recommendations and drive development and implementation, packaging your work into presentations that influence various audiences including executives.
- Cultivate strong relationships with product teams, educating and advising them on their product’s localization journey whilst representing global users and addressing top business needs related to a product’s localization and local insights.
- Manage the product’s localization budget, from understanding the roadmap to drive the annual planning, to advising stakeholders on optimizing their spend.
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