Director, Chief of Staff, Workspace Product

As Director, Chief of Staff, Workspace Product, you will provide critical operational leverage for the Google Workspace suite. To ensure organizational clarity, this role is distinct from our Product Director functions: while Product Directors are primarily accountable for the "what"—driving product strategy, defining roadmaps, and ensuring the delivery of innovative features—the Chief of Staff is focused on the "how."

In this capacity, you will serve as a high-impact executive proxy, clearing complex cross-functional bottlenecks and driving alignment across key Google product areas. You will possess deep analytical aptitude and technical fluency—particularly in AI/ML—combined with the sophisticated influencing skills required to navigate large-scale enterprise and consumer application ecosystems. This role is essential for converting organizational friction into collaborative execution and safeguarding the overall health of the Workspace product organization.

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Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $365000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Apply sophisticated, high-impact influencing skills to drive alignment and convert organizational friction or roadblocks into collaborative solutions within a matrixed environment, particularly with other Google product areas, Marketing, and Sales.
• Lead the definition and execution of critical operational processes, including product reviews, quarterly board and earnings updates, executive engagement, briefings, and strategic trip planning.
• Serve as a strategic executive proxy for the Workspace Product Lead with the mandate to make binding operational trade-offs and clear bottlenecks to significantly expand leadership bandwidth across Product, UX, Data Science, and Product Management functions.
• Navigate and manage high-stakes dependencies and cross-product area complexity across key Google product areas, including Android, Cloud, Search, and Core AI infrastructure, to ensure Workspace priorities are maintained and aligned with broader business goals.

Minimum qualifications:

• 15 years of experience operationalizing product roadmaps and managing cross-functional dependencies across product areas.
• 15 years of experience in both enterprise and consumer software markets.
• 10 years of analytical experience with spreadsheet analysis, public presentations, and data management.
• 10 years of experience managing business executive stakeholders and working in a global company.

Preferred qualifications:

• Excellent communication and public presentation skills, with experience representing complex technical or business concepts to global executive stakeholders.
• Understanding of the technology market and a passion for Google Workspace.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders in a boardroom environment and manage without authority.
• Ability to serve as a senior executive proxy in critical forums, with the authority to interface with VPs to represent Workspace's strategic interests, make binding operational trade-offs, and clear bottlenecks independently.
• Sophisticated influencing and conflict resolution skills in a matrixed environment, with the ability to convert organizational friction into collaborative solutions.