Product Strategy and Operations Lead, Google Education

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 176,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Bonus target 20%

Job summary

Google Education seeks a Product Strategy and Operations Lead to drive cross-functional initiatives across the Education portfolio, from Mountain View to New York. You will shape product strategy, coordinate with engineering, PMs, and education partners, and translate high-level goals into executable plans.

This role emphasizes data-driven decision making, stakeholder influence, and delivering complex programs at scale, leveraging learning science and AI initiatives in education.

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

• Influence team members and executive management to act and drive projects to completion.
• Establish and lead operating processes and tools for effectively managing the organization and achieving goals.
• Lead strategic projects that are operationally intensive and cross-functional to ensure there is structure and timely delivery of project goals. Drive end-to-end operational accuracy to ensure flawless execution of the highest-priority goals.
• Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and timelines for each project, regular metrics reporting, that tie back to strategic goals, and post-implementation impact analysis. Lead Objectives and Key Result (OKR) scoring.
• Support annual planning activities for the Education portfolio.

Skills

Outcomes ownership

Decision making

Ambiguity resolution

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Product Strategy and Operations Lead, Google Education

Google • Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; +2 more; +1 more

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: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, 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:

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience gathering and analyzing data to uncover insights, with a proven ability to synthesize and simplify complex information into actionable strategies.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• Track record of managing complex systems, cross-functional stakeholder groups, and large-scale change management initiatives.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills with the ability to represent complex business or technical concepts with executive leadership.

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.

The Google Education team's mission is to transform learning and teaching at scale. We do this by helping K-12 and higher education institutions around the world bring the best of Google tools and technology to their organizations. We've made significant headway on this journey. With AI, the potential for technology to enhance education is greater than ever. Expanding access to learning via our new AI offerings is a top priority for Google.

The Strategy and Operations team helps shape the cross-Google narrative for Google Education, translating our high-level goals into an operational reality, ensuring our business is run effectively. In this role, you will have the defining opportunity to transform teaching and learning for students globally. By harnessing learning science and the breakthrough capabilities being developed across Google, you will shape the future of education.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

• $176000 - $256000 (USD)
• 20% bonus target
• equity
• benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Influence team members and executive management to act and drive projects to completion.
• Establish and lead operating processes and tools for effectively managing the organization and achieving goals.
• Lead strategic projects that are operationally intensive and cross-functional to ensure there is structure and timely delivery of project goals. Drive end-to-end operational accuracy to ensure flawless execution of the highest-priority goals.
• Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and timelines for each project, regular metrics reporting, that tie back to strategic goals, and post-implementation impact analysis. Lead Objectives and Key Result (OKR) scoring.
• Support annual planning activities for the Education portfolio.

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