Education Strategy & Operations Lead

Google Inc.; Mountain View, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Education is seeking a Product Strategy and Operations Specialist to drive end-to-end operational excellence and lead cross-functional strategic initiatives. The role focuses on data-driven insights, scalable processes, and close collaboration with engineering, product, and education teams.

The role emphasizes configuring KPIs, OKRs, and complex change management to transform teaching and learning at scale, with a strong emphasis on senior-leadership communication and actionable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 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 projects.
• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience managing complex systems, cross-functional stakeholder groups, and large-scale change management initiatives.
• Experience gathering and analyzing data to uncover insights, with an ability to synthesize and simplify complex information into actionable strategies.
• Excellent problem solving skills, combined with outstanding business judgment, communication, and prioritization skills.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to represent complex business or technical concepts with senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end operational aptitude to ensure flawless execution of the highest-priority goals.
• Lead strategic projects that are operationally intensive and cross-functional to ensure there is structure and timely delivery of project goals.
• Establish Key Performance Indicators and timelines for each project, regular metrics reporting that tie back to strategic goals, and post-implementation impact analysis.
• Lead OKR scoring to ensure we are making progress against our ambitious goals, identifying areas of softness where we should double down. Support annual planning activities for the Edu portfolio.
• Drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders on critical strategic initiatives.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Data analysis

Mentoring

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google Education is seeking a Product Strategy and Operations Specialist to drive end-to-end operational excellence and lead cross-functional strategic initiatives. The role focuses on data-driven insights, scalable processes, and close collaboration with engineering, product, and education teams.

The role emphasizes configuring KPIs, OKRs, and complex change management to transform teaching and learning at scale, with a strong emphasis on senior-leadership communication and actionable