Principal, Product Strategy and Operations, Cloud AI
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Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
Holidays: 13 paid days per yearNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.
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:
- Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
- Experience working with product and engineering teams
- Understanding of Enterprise Software business models.
- Ability to work quickly on a wide range of topics from accounting business recognition to AI/ML applications.
- Excellent 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.
Cloud AI is committed to driving digital transformation for global enterprises by providing advanced AI technologies and powerful solutions that produce concrete business results. Google Cloud acts as a catalyst, accelerating the ability of organizations to modernize their operations and industry sectors.
As The Strategic Operations Principal, you will be a trusted partner responsible for managing the rhythm of the business, driving strategic initiatives, and ensuring the seamless execution of our operational priorities.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic analysis that informs Cloud’s AI strategy such as identifying impacts of accelerating growth through ISV and SI partners, analyzing opportunity size for products, or identifying of business acceleration through customer cohort analysis.
- Work with VP leaders to support day-to-day decision making through timely analysis.
- Define and manage processes needed to operationalize strategic initiatives such as maintaining optimized utilization of technical infrastructure or defining the critical financial and customer metrics to measure success across teams in portfolio planning, annual planning, and OKRs.
- Drive alignment of the Product Operations team's priorities with executive stakeholders and provide coaching and mentorship to develop team members.
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