Workforce Strategy Lead, Core Strategy and Operations

Google•San Jose, CA

5d•$222,000 - $308,000

About The Position

The Workforce Strategy Lead is a high-impact Product Strategy and Operations role focused on organizational strategy, portfolio analytics, forward-looking workforce design, and the global facilities and real estate footprint. The role contributes to designing an agile organization optimized for delivery, augmented by AI technology, and automated through agentic workflows to drive long-term business value. The position serves as a workforce domain expert, trusted advisor, and builder for leaders making critical workforce decisions. It owns a portfolio of relationships with leaders, advocates for AI-driven tools and agentic automation to scale workforce planning, and partners closely with Finance, HR, Recruiting, Real Estate, and Operations so teams can execute plans seamlessly.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
15 years of experience in workforce and organizational health planning, product strategy and operations, or analytics in a technology company.
Experience working with and analyzing data.
Experience managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.

Nice To Haves

Experience building advanced workforce models incorporating skills, capacity, automation potential, and direct business impact.
Experience working with product and engineering teams and in organizations undergoing significant technology transformation, rapid scaling, or AI/automation adoption.
Experience working with enterprise planning tools or cloud-based EPM platforms such as Anaplan, Adaptive, or Workday.
Experience defining business or operational requirements for Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic workflows, or AI assistants.
Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and oversee a standardized, tool-based central hub for workforce planning that addresses holistic resource composition and capability requirements.
Advocate integrating AI, ML, and predictive analytics into the workforce planning ecosystem to provide forward-looking alerts and democratize data access through natural language interfaces.
Oversee continuous synchronization of pipeline portfolio demands with actual workforce capacity to ensure optimal staffing for strategic initiatives.
Partner directly with corporate Finance to reconcile bottom-up operational capacity plans and utilization rates with top-down budget constraints and forecasts.
Partner with facilities and real estate management teams on physical footprint strategy and workplace design, ensuring global offices evolve in alignment with dynamic workforce models.