Strategy and Operations Manager, Cloud Product Marketing

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

18h

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 strategic 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 strategic 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. Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s technology all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. 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.
6 years of experience in a management consulting, operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital or private equity role, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.
3 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.
2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.
Experience developing AI workflows.

Nice To Haves

8 years of experience in strategy and operations, management consulting, or go-to-market (GTM) operations.
Experience in process automation, AI-driven workflows, or building scalable organizational infrastructure.
Experience managing budgets and performing return on investment analysis on marketing or technical investments.
Experience in cloud computing, developer relations, or enterprise software.

Responsibilities

Design and manage centralized Hubs to automate repetitive marketing tasks and asset production.
Identify manual "Activity Traps" such as manual tracking or routine creative production and replace them with automated, AI-driven workflows.
Act as the primary quality gate for global milestones, ensuring 100% adherence to the "One Google Cloud" source messaging code.
Engineer automated data loops that ingest market signals (analyst sentiment or usage friction) and translate them into narrative requirements.
Support the management of practice-area budgets and audit vendor spend to identify opportunities for consolidation and return on investment optimization.