Principal, Strategy and Operations, Human Understanding and Experience

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 154,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Google is seeking a Strategic Initiatives Lead (Product Strategy and Operations) to drive the HUE AI Transformation portfolio, shaping strategy and operations across the AI-native era, with cross‑functional collaboration across Ads, Commerce, Search, Geo, and Education.

This role blends data‑driven analysis, executive communication, and scalable frameworks, working with senior leaders to turn ambiguity into measurable impact and to design the pipeline for evaluating 3P tools and 1P tooling

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 11 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.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and drive the strategy and operations to accelerate HUE's transition into the AI-native era.
• Orchestrate a repeatable, hybrid human-AI intelligence pipeline to scan the external 3P product development landscape (e.g., Figma, Miro, Pencil.dev, Flowith, and other emerging contenders).
• Act as the strategic owner for the entire HUE AIT Portfolio program list, ensuring high-priority initiatives are managed from inception to completion.
• Design and implement scalable frameworks, metrics, and OKRs that transform grassroots energy into measurable institutional IP.
• Create the processes to influence and advance HUE’s 1P/3P tooling strategy including how we benchmark, pilot, and scale 3P tools and influence the development of 1P tools.

Skills

Outcome ownership

Decision making

Problem solving

Stakeholder influence

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Principal, Strategy and Operations, Human Understanding and Experience

Google

San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 11 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:

• Experience utilizing advanced AI technologies to optimize operational workflows, analyze large volumes of community data, and design data-driven strategies.
• Proven experience collaborating with creative roles (e.g., visual/graphic designers) alongside technical and operational roles, with a passion for delivering visually flawless, highly polished executive communications.
• Deep appreciation for and understanding of both Data Science and UX Design disciplines, with the ability to speak both "languages" and bridge their distinct methodologies.
• Masterful written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with a proven track record of structuring highly ambiguous, 0-to-1 problems into clear, persuasive executive-ready frameworks, scorecards, and presentations.

About the job

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.

Human Understanding and Experience (HUE) is a Data Science and UX craft collective across Knowledge and Information's (K&I) product pillars: Ads, Commerce, Search, Geo, and Education. Focused on AI transformation, talent, and community, HUE provides a dedicated platform to amplify best practices and share AI learnings, helping teams scale their success.

We are looking for a Strategic Initiatives Lead (Product Strategy and Operations) to act as an executive-level Independent Contributor (IC). In this role, you will take the reins of our most critical programs, diving into the strategy and operations of bringing HUE forward into the AI era. Rather than maintaining a steady-state operation, you will actively build, shape, and scale the HUE AIT (AI Transformation) portfolio from its foundational outset. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $176000 - $256000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and drive the strategy and operations to accelerate HUE's transition into the AI-native era.
• Orchestrate a repeatable, hybrid human-AI intelligence pipeline to scan the external 3P product development landscape (e.g., Figma, Miro, Pencil.dev, Flowith, and other emerging contenders).
• Act as the strategic owner for the entire HUE AIT Portfolio program list, ensuring high-priority initiatives are managed from inception to completion.
• Design and implement scalable frameworks, metrics, and OKRs that transform grassroots energy into measurable institutional IP.
• Create the processes to influence and advance HUE’s 1P/3P tooling strategy including how we benchmark, pilot, and scale 3P tools and influence the development of 1P tools.

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