Product Strategy and Operations Principal, Distributed and Sovereign Cloud

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.

The Distributed and Sovereign Cloud (DSC) organization is focused on enabling customers to run their most critical AI and workloads anywhere without compromising on innovation, security, or speed.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. 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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $222000 - $308000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Influence executive-level decision-making around core business decisions, such as prioritization of growth opportunities, through scalable and actionable investigative insights to increase productivity.
  
• Organize the design and implementation of the business cadence to deliver effective operations including reporting success of Distributed and Sovereign Cloud by running Monthly Business Reviews (MBR)/Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with the field leaders.
• Lead product strategy initiatives by partnering with cross-functional teams to structure and execute analyses required to develop recommendations. Communicate findings to executive management.
• Lead and drive operational activities like AOP planning, Opex budget management, headcount planning and management.
• Build and refine the team's data platform infrastructure (e.g., data pipelines, data models, and dashboards) to ensure it effectively tracks business performance (OKRs) and supports product decision-making across Distributed and Sovereign Cloud.

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.