Workforce Strategy Lead, Core Strategy and Operations

Google; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 222,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Workforce Strategy Lead to orchestrate organizational strategy, portfolio analytics, and AI-driven workforce design across global functions. This role demands strategic execution and trusted-advisor leadership in a fast-changing technology environment.

You will drive agentic automation, partner with Finance, HR, Real Estate, and Operations, and shape scalable workforce solutions aligned with business priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in workforce and organizational health planning, product strategy and operations, or analytics in a technology company.
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and oversee a standardized, tool-based central hub for workforce planning addressing holistic resource composition and capability requirements.
• Advocate the integration of AI, ML, and predictive analytics into the workforce planning ecosystem to provide forward-looking alerts and democratize data access using natural language interfaces.
• Oversee the continuous synchronization of pipeline portfolio demands with actual workforce capacity to ensure the business is optimally staffed to deliver on strategic initiatives.
• Intersect directly with corporate Finance to ensure bottom-up operational capacity plans and utilization rates reconcile seamlessly with top-down budget constraints and forecasts.
• Partner with facilities and real estate management teams to drive the physical footprint strategy and workplace design, ensuring global offices evolve symmetrically with dynamic workforce models.

Skills

Data analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Workforce planning

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Anaplan

Adaptive

Workday

R

SQL

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; San Jose, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in workforce and organizational health planning, product strategy and operations, or analytics in a technology company.
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building advanced workforce models incorporating skills, capacity, automation potential, and direct business impact.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams, and in organizations undergoing significant technology transformation, rapid scaling, or AI/automation adoption.
• Experience working with enterprise planning tools or cloud-based EPM platforms (e.g., Anaplan, Adaptive, Workday).
• Experience defining business/operational requirements for Large Language Model (LLMs), agentic workflows, or AI assistants.
• Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.

About the job

In this role, you join the team as the Workforce Strategy Lead, as we are looking for an exceptional Product Strategy and Operations professional with strategic expertise and a strong delivery record in building trust as this is a high-impact, strategic role designed to orchestrate organizational strategy, portfolio analytics, forward-looking workforce design, and global facilities/real estate footprint. In this role, you will contribute to designing an agile organization that is optimized for delivery, augmented by cutting-edge AI technology, and automated via agentic workflows to drive long-term business value.

You will be the domain expert in the room, a trusted advisor leader turns to for critical workforce decisions and, just as critically, a builder. You will be multi-tasking, that is what makes this role unique. You will own a portfolio of relationships with leaders, advocate the development of AI-driven tools and agentic automation that make workforce planning scalable, and partner closely with Finance, HR, Recruiting, Real Estate, and Operations to enable teams to execute seamlessly against plans.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $222000 - $308000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Design, implement, and oversee a standardized, tool-based central hub for workforce planning addressing holistic resource composition and capability requirements.
• Advocate the integration of AI, ML, and predictive analytics into the workforce planning ecosystem to provide forward-looking alerts and democratize data access using natural language interfaces.
• Oversee the continuous synchronization of pipeline portfolio demands with actual workforce capacity to ensure the business is optimally staffed to deliver on strategic initiatives.
• Intersect directly with corporate Finance to ensure bottom-up operational capacity plans and utilization rates reconcile seamlessly with top-down budget constraints and forecasts.
• Partner with facilities and real estate management teams to drive the physical footprint strategy and workplace design, ensuring global offices evolve symmetrically with dynamic workforce models.

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