Product Strategy and Operations Lead, AI and Infrastructure

Google Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

401(k) retirement benefits with company match

20 days of vacation per year

Paid holidays (13 days per year)

Job summary

Google Inc. is looking for a Product Strategy and Operations Lead to drive business and product strategies for AI and Cloud systems. The ideal candidate will have at least 8 years of experience in management consulting or product management, along with strong analytical skills. Responsibilities include building commercial models, delivering data-driven recommendations, and managing the business cadence. This role offers a competitive salary range of $150,000 - $218,000, plus equity and benefits, with potential locations including Sunnyvale, CA, and Seattle, WA.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in management consulting, product management, or analytics.
• Experience working with and analyzing data and managing multiple projects.
• Ability to provide insightful data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Drive business and product strategy for Machine Learning and AI Cloud systems.
• Build commercial models, pricing strategies, and financial models.
• Lead cadence for managing business and track key metrics.

Skills

Management consulting

Product management

Analytics

Data analysis

Project management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

MBA or Master's degree

Job description

Product Strategy and Operations Lead, AI and Infrastructure

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In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
• 7 years of experience in Management Consulting, Product Management, Corporate Development, High-Tech, Engineering, Operations, or Finance/Investment Banking/Venture Capital.
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple projects.
• Experience managing operational initiatives across various functional domains and geographies.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree in a management, technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with Infrastructure, Cloud, Enterprise/B2B businesses.
• Ability to deliver effective presentations and build partnerships with executive leaders and their teams across Google.
• Ability to provide insightful data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership, based on strategic insights, analysis, experience, technical acumen, and good judgment.
• Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving, analysis, and written/verbal communication skills, with effective business acumen and attention-to-detail.

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 executive leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, Product Managers, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

In this role, you will work with the external facing AI and Computing Infrastructure (ACI) Cloud business which is the largest and fastest growing business, and the internal facing CoreML and Technical Infrastructure (TI) businesses.

In this role you will work closely with the product management, engineering, and other cross-functional teams (e.g., Sales, Marketing, GTM, Finance, Corporate Development, Supply Chain, etc) to develop business-level and product strategies (e.g., multi-year business plan, specific product strategies, new product business cases, and Go-to-Market strategy), drive ad-hoc strategic projects (e.g., buy/build/partner models, business cases), incubate new initiatives, provide analytics support (e.g., define key business metrics, perform in-depth analysis or market analysis to answer important questions on product trends/business performance), and facilitate running the business (e.g., orchestrate business reviews).

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more. The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $150,000-$218,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive business and product strategy for the various domains within Machine Learning, and AI Cloud systems working with product and engineering leadership.
• Enable the product and engineering leadership to make long-term product strategy decisions to meet various needs of Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Build commercial models, pricing and packaging strategies, business cases, and financial models/projections.
• Deliver data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership, based on strategic insights, analysis, experience, technical acumen, and good judgment.
• Lead cadence for managing the business, define and track key product, business metrics, or KPIs, lead monthly and quarterly business reviews that enable timely feedback and decisions, drive annual planning (ZBB, Headcount, OpEx) for spend across prioritized initiatives.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy, Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal, Belonging at Google, and How we hire.

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