Group Strategy and Operations Manager, Global Practice Area

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

11h•$211,000 - $297,000

About The Position

Strategy & Operations (S&O) professionals in Google’s Marketing organization provide business critical insights and analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive partnerships and new initiatives forward. Whether you are embedded within a specific marketing team to use insights to enable better marketing decisions or the global S&O function to equip the organization to succeed at scale, you will engage with Google leadership in order to establish Marketing’s direction. You will manage planning and operational processes and work cross-functionally with key partners across Marketing, Product, Finance and Engineering to solve our toughest challenges, advocate for high-priority projects, and drive greater operational excellence within Marketing. To be successful in this role, you have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, effective quantitative and communication skills, and the ability to take on broad-reaching and ambiguous questions while working collaboratively and cross-functionally with Googlers of all levels. As a Group S&O Manager of Practice Areas, you will lead a team of dedicated strategy managers (by Practice Area) focused on crafting an integrated marketing strategy across multiple functions (product marketing, campaigns, regional marketing and sales), running the rhythm of business to assess performance initiatives, driving performance deep-dives and owning special projects. As part of this, you will own cross-product area initiatives and manage executive stakeholders to ensure strategy translates to execution and achieves overarching Cloud goals.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.
10 years of experience in management consulting, operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory, or 8 years of experience with an advanced degree.
6 years of experience in people management.
5 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.
4 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.

Nice To Haves

MBA or equivalent practical experience.
Experience in Business-to-Business (B2B) marketing.
Experience in cloud products across Infrastructure, AI, Data Analytics, Databases, Security and Productivity.
Experience in building, inspiring, and leading various teams.
Experience with problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to executive management.
Ability to drive impact in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Manage cross-functional executive stakeholders across Product Marketing, Global Campaigns, Marketing Analytics, Regional Marketing and Product area GTM Sales.
Propose, co-ordinate, and cascade priorities while aligning the marketing budget to identified investment initiatives through annual planning process.
Contribute actively to building strategy and operations community.
Lead a team of dedicated product area specific strategy managers to drive initiatives, build and execute end-to-end marketing strategy, support performance assessment and own the rhythm of business.