Design Operations Manager, Brand Studio

Google • Portland, OR

14h

About The Position

Brand Studio is focused on building the Google brand. By combining user
insights, strategic thinking, beautiful design and storytelling, our team
creates a wide range of work that drives Google’s reputation for being helpful
to people, businesses, and communities. Our work also aims to build advocacy and
trust in the brand. To achieve that, we’re a multidisciplinary team of
marketers, strategists, insights specialists, creatives, producers, and
engineers who work together to create exceptional marketing.

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep
the big picture in focus. As a Design Operations Manager, you will lead complex,
multidisciplinary projects. You will plan requirements with internal customers
and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing
project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating goals to project
stakeholders and the team. Your projects often span offices, time zones and
hemispheres, and it's your job to keep all the players coordinated on the
project's progress and deadlines.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google
starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in
unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the
world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the
monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing
the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately,
letting the technology speak for itself.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in digital and integrated projects/campaigns.
• 5 years of experience in operations or project management, including scoping projects and driving execution across stakeholders while meeting budget and scheduling requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with agencies and vendors.
• Ability to build and maintain constructive working and communications relationships with a community of technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively influence and communicate cross-functionally with all levels of management.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Define, evaluate, and improve processes.
• Manage requests, project priorities and support workload distribution.
• Be able to project manage/lead projects and efforts across multiple stakeholders. Provide frequent project feedback and updates as projects develop (includes flagging issues and helping to identify possible solutions).
• Educate stakeholders and agencies on processes and guidelines for projects.
• Be able to directly add technical value to projects (as skills are developed).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager