Product area
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Job description
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.
Qualifications
Job responsibilities
- Lead strategic partnerships to deliver the aligned business priorities within timelines.
- Develop and lead highly visible fast paced programs internally and externally, developing and leading the operational project plan to deliver against key timelines and goals.
- Lead critical aspects of product planning and launch for Home and Health with a focus on regional launch strategy.
- Identify risks/potential blockages/opportunities. Drive the development of a plan of record (POR) for activities that impact multiple cross-functional stakeholder groups. Prepare launch go/no go checklists and create risk contingency plans as needed.
- Build productive and synergistic relationships with internal and external cross-functional teams and leaders, including product, engineering, marketing, finance, product planning, legal, sales operations, sales, business management, etc.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 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 projects.
Preferred qualifications
- Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience working in business operations, program management, or relevant professional experience in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience managing external partnerships.
- Ability to align and lead internal and external teams across different functions, and with deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on accuracy, completeness and succinct presentation, especially at the executive level.
