Strategy and Operations Lead, gTech GTM

gTech’s Strategy and Operations team (gSO) is made up of strategic partners and trusted advisors that drive success and transformative changes for gTech. We create value through deep functional and business expertise combined with analytical excellence to formulate and deliver strategies. Using core capabilities like strategy, analytics, and communications, we empower gTech to do amazing things to land the present, and build for the future.

The Central gTech Strategy and Operations organization focuses on the most critical and influential cross-gTech initiatives, ensures cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, provides business critical insights using analytics, and helps teams across gTech drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level organizational priorities with strong day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

In this role, you will drive solutions to complex, ambiguous, and high-visibility business problems and opportunities for gTech, ranging from AI automation to the future of customer experience. You will influence the goal setting, help transform early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives, and manage operations to ensure a strong landing that drives measurable impact.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

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

US: $152000 - $222000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive large-scale and complex strategic initiatives for gTech to achieve step-change business impact while acting as an operational thought partner, subject matter expert and represent the customer to leadership.
  
• Solve complex, multi-variable problems, identifying potential operational inefficiencies and execution roadblocks.
  
• Translate highly ambiguous business questions into structured problem statements, clear insights, and actionable recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align directions, execute initiatives, and optimize resource allocations.
• Develop and deliver compelling communications and presentations to structure strategic analyses for senior stakeholders and executives.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.
• Experience working with executive stakeholders.
• Experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA.
• Experience structuring and executing analyses and programs across multiple regions or time zones in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.
• Experience collaborating with and unifying senior cross-functional stakeholders with competing objectives.
• Experience with executive-level engagement as a business, operational, and strategic thought partner.
• Advanced communication and presentation skills, with a proven track record of distilling complex issues into clear, concise narratives for stakeholders.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Bruno, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.