Product Strategy and Operations Principal, AI2

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Product and Business Strategy Leader within the AI and Infrastructure team to align teams across functions and drive strategic initiatives that scale our products and infrastructure. The role blends strategy, operations, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-impact projects, partnering with Engineers, PMs, UX, and senior leadership.

Responsibilities include identifying problems, leading programs, and establishing processes to accelerate execution while delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience (minimum).
• 11 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy or analytics in a technology company.
• Experience working with data and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.

Responsibilities

• Identify problems and issues across the organization and define/lead programs and processes to solve them.
• 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.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

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 working with product and engineering teams.


• Ability to grow in a fast-paced matrixed environment, influence and collaborate cross-functionally with Technical Leads, Engineering Fellows, Engineering Leaders, Finance, Legal, and Accounting.


• Strong product sense, deep technology understanding of the infra stack and business judgment.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  

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 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 the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge 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.

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:

• Identify problems and issues across the organization and define/lead programs and processes to solve them.
  


• 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.