Group AI Strategy Manager

Google; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s AI Garage team, within People Operations and Corp Engineering, seeks a senior leader to drive agentic AI initiatives across HR product areas. You will partner with CHRO and VP-level stakeholders to shape strategy, manage multi-project portfolios, and deliver high-value AI solutions that transform HR processes at scale.

This role emphasizes people management, cross-functional collaboration, and execution excellence across business, product, and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in program management, strategy, or operational transformation at an executive level.
• 5 years of experience in people management.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategy for agentic AI across multiple people operations product areas.
• Lead the conceptualization and high-level design of AI-driven solutions, focusing on significant business value, user experience, safety and compliance.
• Lead workshops and swarms with subject matter experts to analyze incumbent processes and redesign them into agentified workflows.
• Establish key success metrics, measurement frameworks, and ROI models for AI solutions, partnering with Analytics teams to assess impact and value.
• Lead effective partnerships and foster strong collaboration with the broader executive leaders to drive alignment, secure resources, and facilitate complex decision-making.

Skills

Executive-level program management

Strategy development

Operational transformation

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree in Business/Stats/Math/Economics/Engineering

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in program management, strategy, or operational transformation at an executive level.
• 5 years of experience in people management.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Applied Science, or a related field.
• Experience leading the strategy, development, and deployment of impactful AI/ML solutions in a business or consumer context.
• Deep knowledge of global HR/people operations processes and service operations transformation.
• Proven track record of driving large-scale, complex initiatives requiring extensive change management, executive stakeholder alignment across conflicting priorities, and execution at scale.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale change initiatives, leading teams and managing executive stakeholders.
• Passion and ability to organize highly complex information to structure decision-making and align executive stakeholders.

About The Job

AI Garage is a new initiative within People Operations (POps) and Corp Engineering, established with the goal of leveraging AI to transform Google’s HR products and operations. Our team sits at the intersection of business, product and engineering to ideate, design and launch industry defining agentic systems and capabilities. We are a cross-functional team of AI specialists who work with Business teams to design impactful, industry defining AI solutions by re-imaginging existing workflows, and engage closely with Engineering teams to develop, test and deploy them. In this role, you will lead several projects in our portfolio. This is a people management role with high-visibility and direct impact and reporting exposure to the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), as AI transformation is a top strategic priority for the organization. Great just isn't good enough for our People Operations team (known elsewhere as "Human Resources"). We bring the world's most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategy for agentic AI across multiple people operations product areas (e.g., learning and development, performance, support services).
• Lead the conceptualization and high-level design of innovative, AI-driven solutions, focusing on significant business value, user experience, safety and compliance.
• Lead workshops and swarms with subject matter experts to analyze incumbent processes and redesign them into agentified workflows.
• Establish key success metrics, measurement frameworks, and Return on Investment (ROI) models for AI solutions, partnering with Analytics teams to assess impact and value.
• Lead effective partnerships and foster strong collaboration with the broader executive leaders (Director and VP) across teams to drive alignment, secure resources, and facilitate complex decision-making

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