Product Strategy and Operations Principal, Cloud AI

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. The Product Strategy and Operations team guides the trajectory of impactful initiatives, translating complex, ambiguous data into strategic decisions.

In this role you will shape roadmaps, empower cross-functional teams, and translate data insights into actions that drive growth and improve user experiences on a global scale.

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.
• Experience with financial forecasting, financial modeling.
• Experience in go-to-market, product strategy/planning, program management.

Responsibilities

• Shape foundational product strategy by designing and deploying advanced investigative frameworks that uncover actionable user insights and market trends.
• Synthesize complex, unstructured data sets into clear, recommendations for leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Develop metrics, serve insights agentically, and build predictive models that identify structural growth opportunities and resolve potential bottlenecks before they manifest.
• Conduct rapid iteration, A/B testing, and experimentation to validate the business impact of proposed product solutions.
• Build and maintain scalable analytical models and dashboards, ensuring the highest standards of data quality and reliability for enterprise-wide decision-making.

Skills

Data analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Forecasting & modeling

Go-to-market strategy

Product strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, 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.
• Experience with financial forecasting, financial modeling.
• Experience in go-to-market, product strategy/planning, program management.

Preferred qualifications

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Data science or Experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• 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 Product Strategy and Operations team sits at the intersection of innovation and execution, guiding the trajectory of our most impactful initiatives. We operate in a highly dynamic and ambiguous space, requiring adaptable thinkers who can continuously evolve and drive clarity without relying on a predefined playbook.

We embrace complex issues and pivot quickly alongside shifting industry landscapes, ensuring that our products and foundational infrastructure remain firmly.

In this role, you will leverage deep investigative insights to shape the future of our overarching product offerings. This role is critical for translating complex, ambiguous data into decisions that ensure our solutions remain impactful on a global scale. Your work will directly guide product roadmaps, empowering cross-functional teams to optimize performance, refine user experiences, and drive sustainable growth across rapidly evolving markets.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting‑edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

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

Responsibilities

• Shape foundational product strategy by designing and deploying advanced investigative frameworks that uncover actionable user insights and market trends.
• Synthesize complex, unstructured data sets into clear, recommendations for leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Develop metrics, serve insights agentically, and build predictive models that identify structural growth opportunities and resolve potential bottlenecks before they manifest.
• Conduct rapid iteration, A/B testing, and experimentation to validate the business impact of proposed product solutions.
• Build and maintain scalable analytical models and dashboards, ensuring the highest standards of data quality and reliability for enterprise-wide decision-making.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.