Product Strategist, Localization (L10n)
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program management and a customer facing role.
- Experience with localization operations and strategy or experience in internationalization.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Applied Science, or a related field.
- 5 years of experience managing projects and working with analytics, software coding, or customer-side web technologies.
- Ability to craft a solution to meet stakeholder and user needs leveraging existing Menu of Services or new technologies.
- 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 diverse 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 Product Strategist in the Localization team, you are a business leader, helping Google's ideas and products look, feel and sound natural to users across the globe. Whether you're on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Android, Play, YouTube) or a business product you are in charge of driving the localization process to ensure successful launches across the globe. Your projects often span offices, time zones and hemispheres, and it's your role to keep all the players coordinated on project progress and deadlines. Using your influencing and relationship-building skills, you provide strategic insight to cross-functional teams and leadership to drive Google’s product expansion globally. You'll work with Googlers from Engineering, Product, Marketing, UX, Strategy, and Finance, to name just a few.
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’ complex 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.To learn more about gTech, check out our video.
Responsibilities
- Support the localization of one or several Google products from inception to launch, managing delivery, cost and quality of projects and overseeing vendor execution.
- Support strong relationships with product teams, educating and advising them on their product’s localization journey. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to understand business needs related to a product’s localization.
- Be accountable for the product’s localization budget, from understanding the product’s roadmap to drive the annual planning, to advising stakeholders on optimizing their spend.
- Understand Localization workflows and services, identify tool and process needs to enable operational scaling, collaborate with Operations and Engineering to support deployment, with guidance from the Portfolio Lead.
- Build compelling case for new business opportunities develop insightful recommendations and drive development and implementation. Structure and package your work into presentations and communications that influence various audiences.
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