Strategy and Operations Lead, Strategic Projects

1 Month ago • 4-10 Years • Operations

Job Summary

Job Description

The Strategy and Operations Lead for Strategic Projects at Google's Go-to-Market Operations (GTM) team plays a crucial role in driving business growth and continuous improvement. Working closely with regional leadership, this position involves identifying, designing, and implementing strategic initiatives. Key responsibilities include defining project scope, aligning stakeholders, delivering on project priorities, and enabling effective decision-making across cross-functional teams. This role requires strong analytical skills, strategic thinking, excellent communication, and the ability to navigate ambiguous situations. The ideal candidate will partner with central strategy and other GTM teams to execute business priorities and support the sales organization in achieving its goals. They will also help evolve early-stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years experience in relevant field (or 4 years with advanced degree)
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills
  • Strong problem-solving and project management skills
  • Cross-functional collaboration and teamwork
  • Ability to handle ambiguous situations
Good to have:
  • 2 years experience in advertising/digital media
  • 2 years experience in data modeling and reporting

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate advisory, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 2 years of experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, or a digital media environment.
  • 2 years of experience creating data sets, data modeling, and reporting.
  • Ability to execute cross-functionally and work as part of a team.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguous situations, and ramp-up on new problem statements/opportunities.
  • Excellent networking, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to work across various functions, and take ambiguous topics and create simple/compelling narratives for different audiences.
  • Excellent problem solving and project management skills, with the ability to lead operational and strategic initiatives.

About the job

The Go-to-Market Operations (GTM) team ensures that Google's ads business runs smoothly, and works to set the go-to-market strategy and guide execution and operations against the strategy. The team focuses on aligning the company priorities with day-to-day operations, while also helping to evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

As a Strategy and Operations Lead, you will work with regional leadership to identify, design, and implement opportunities to drive business growth and continuous improvement. You will partner with Central Strategy and several other GTM teams to deliver on business priorities and enable the sales organization. You will support GTM teams in making critical strategic decisions and achieving business goals.

Responsibilities

  • Work with executive leadership to define, launch, and drive strategic initiatives.
  • Define project scope, key focus areas, analysis needed to uncover opportunities, and drive stakeholder alignment and consensus to deliver business impact.
  • Work with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver on project priorities, drive alignment, and enable decision making.

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