Strategy and Operations Lead, Global Product Solutions

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

The Global Product Solutions Strategy and Operations team partners closely with each Global Product Solutions (GPS) leadership team and the regional go-to-market (GTM) teams to drive strategic initiatives end-to-end for GBO. The team's job to be done ranges from running point on the GPS annual strategy planning process, defining and aligning product objective key results (OKR) metrics to steer the Ads business with, prepping product-specific business forecast meeting executive reviews and product-specific steering committee reviews with cross-functional business and product leaders, and one-off, product-centric strategy projects to drive high-impact outcomes in service of product positioning and activation.

In this role, you will be partner to the Vice President, GPS of Cross Product Solutions (XPS) and their leadership team, a product expert group that acts as the single voice from Sales to Product and shapes product direction. You will be accountable and responsible for leading effective business operations for the XPS team and driving the organization mission and culture.

You will lead annual planning, OKR definition and target setting for the XPS VP. Throughout the year, you will manage the headcount and opex for the organization, establish and drive organization wide culture and learning efforts and help prioritize decisions for central go-to-market initiatives to speed up the product to market feedback loop.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Be the thought partner to the VP of Cross Product Solutions (XPS) for running efficient and optimal business operations for the XPS organization.
  
• Manage the business operations for the Cross Product Solutions (XPS) organization including OpEx and headcount management, preparing for team offsites and monthly town halls and manager roundtables.
  
• Partner with the VP of Cross Product Solutions (XPS) and People Operations to establish and grow the team culture for the XPS organization.
  
• Lead annual planning and development of key metrics (OKRs) to track progress on GBO, GTM and XPS priorities throughout the year.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for streamlined go-to-market operations (e.g., team structure, OKRs, executive-facing narratives) based on regional and channel trends/market feedback.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.
• 5 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA degree.
• 2 years of experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, or a digital media environment.
  
• 2 years of experience creating complex data sets, data modeling, and reporting.