Product Strategy and Operations Lead

Google • Mountain View, CA

17h • $126,000 - $181,000

About The Position

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.

Play’s mission is to become the most trusted everything marketplace. Play
provides apps, games, and digital content services that bring Android devices to
life. Googlers working on Play do everything from shaping the product strategy,
to engineering our back-end systems, to forming content partnerships. They make
it possible for people to do things like buy a game or app on their Android
phone, then have it instantly available across all devices. The Play Store
serves over three billion users around the world, and is a critical driver of
Google’s overall business generation growth.

This team gathers critical insights to ensure cross functional alignment of
goals and execution, that drives strategic partnerships and new initiatives
forward. They stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with
strong day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into
future-growth initiatives.

Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by
the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and
Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our
backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content
partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or
song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop.
The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and
partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
• Experience working with and analyzing data.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working in a developer environment.
• Ability to create effective relationships, influence and collaborate internally and externally at all organizational levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent strategic and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to collaborate well in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Focus on product strategy and operations for the Play developer platform, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
• Build scalable engagement models and programs with critical cross-functional partners.
• Define execution plans and business strategies in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Lead end-to-end process improvements to maximize organizational efficiency.
• Support product initiatives by aligning stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance, and Compliance.

What This Job Offers

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