Director, Strategy and Business Operations, Modular Infrastructure, Global Data Centers

Google•Atlanta, GA

1d•$262,000 - $364,000

About The Position

The Director of Strategy and Business Operations will serve as the chief operating strategist, business architect, and executive integrator for Google’s Modular Manufacturing & Integration organization. This founding leadership role is the first position dedicated to strategy and business operations, initially requiring high personal leverage and later recruiting and leading a specialized Strategy & BizOps team as the organization scales. The role bridges Google’s multi-year technical vision and cross-organizational execution. It holds executive business ownership of modular unit economics, capital velocity, and product cost targets, partnering closely with Corporate Strategy and Finance while steering the business narrative. The Modular Manufacturing & Integration organization is working to industrialize data center delivery through mass-assembled, standardized modules and off-site manufacturing, moving labor-intensive assembly, systems integration, and quality testing into controlled factory environments. The organization works across AI Systems & Infrastructure (AI2), Google Data Centers (GDC), Systems & Manufacturing (ISM), and Google Global Infrastructure (GGI), defining the modular technical product and serving as the accountable business owner for industrializing and deploying modular capacity globally.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
15 years of experience in corporate strategy, business operations, product strategy, management consulting, or corporate development within high-tech, infrastructure, or industrial manufacturing sectors.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree, MBA, or another advanced graduate degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
15 years of experience in strategy consulting (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain) and internal technology or infrastructure strategy and business operations.
Experience enabling new business or commercial models from scratch, including commercial readiness frameworks, pricing strategy, or partner-facing enablement.
Domain fluency across hyperscale data center infrastructure, advanced hardware systems (AI compute/accelerators), power and cooling infrastructure, or capital-intensive industrial manufacturing.

Responsibilities

Translate long-term technical and architectural visions into multi-year strategic roadmaps, operational priorities, and resource allocation models.
Serve as the accountable business owner for modular unit economics, evaluating trade-offs between factory capital expenditure, logistics overhead, on-site labor elimination, and time-to-market.
Partner with Infrastructure Finance to design Total Cost of Ownership (PerfTCO) frameworks and quantify the enterprise balance-sheet value of accelerated capacity deployment.
Establish top-down product cost targets for modular SKUs across compute, power, and cooling systems, aligning with Hardware Supply Chain and Systems & Manufacturing teams.
Craft strategic narratives, white papers, and executive presentations for S/VP leadership, Operating Committee reviews, and cross-functional forums.
Architect change-management initiatives to drive alignment.
Recruit and lead a specialized Strategy & BizOps team as the organization scales.