Strategy and Operations Principal, Databases
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 11 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
- Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or graduate degree in a Management, technical or quantitative field, or Associates degree in Management Consulting.
- Experience in managing strategic initiatives with landings and outcomes.
- Experience managing the planning cycle for an organization with cross-functional engagement and prioritization.
- Experience with data modeling, reporting, with the ability to perform initial analysis with limited direction.
- Excellent problem solving, analytical, and written and verbal communication skills.
About the job
Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.
Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.
Google Cloud Databases offers a portfolio of managed database services that meet customers' workload requirements from development to business critical global scale. The team's mission is to enable businesses to deliver highly scalable, secure, performant, and reliable solutions.
As a Strategy and Operations Principal, you will work with product management, engineering, and cross functional teams (e.g., go-to-market (GTM), marketing, finance, enablement) to support driving annual planning, devise business strategy, analytics support for key insights, and lead and support priority initiatives. You will provide business insights, ensure cross-functional alignment, drive strategic partnerships, and execute new initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support driving the annual planning (e.g., business growth and resources) cycle, multi-year strategic planning, and process optimization.
- Partner with Databases organizations and cross-functional partners (e.g., Finance, HR, central operations teams, VMO) to allocate, manage, and report headcount, track against strategic annual plan outcomes, and deliver across components of the business through scaled communications.
- Contribute to cadence of running the business, drive planning across prioritized initiatives, define and track key product and business success metrics/KPIs, support monthly and quarterly business reviews with the product and GTM teams.
- Provide data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership based on analysis, experience, technical acumen, and use data and product knowledge to identify growth opportunities.
- Lead product area-wide, cross-functional projects by structuring and executing analyses required to develop recommendations.
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