Google

Beta Development Lead

Google$124K — $177K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, or corporate advisory role.
  • 2 years of experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, or a digital media environment (preferred).
  • Experience working with Google Ads products (preferred).
  • Ability to work in unstructured environments and tackle complex problems with clarity (preferred).
  • Strong cross-functional stakeholder management and influencing skills (preferred).

Responsibilities

  • Manage project scoping, execution, and feedback synthesis for multiple product pilots.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to define test hypotheses and evaluation criteria, ensuring alignment on testing approaches.
  • Assess new products for market fit, adoption, and performance through customer engagement and analysis, delivering insights for product decisions.
  • Identify and eliminate execution blockers, adjust strategies based on market feedback, and provide unbiased assessments.
  • Define successful launch requirements and collaborate with teams to continuously improve operations based on market insights.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Generous retirement plans with company match.
  • Work-life balance support, including flexible hours and location options.
  • Professional development opportunities and resources for career advancement.
  • Access to wellness programs and employee assistance resources.
Full Job Description
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X The application window will be open until at least September 07, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.

Preferred qualifications:
  • 2 years of experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, or a digital media environment.
  • Experience working with Google Ads products.
  • Ability to work in an unstructured environment. Comfortable dealing with ambiguity; desire to attack large, complex problems.
  • Excellent cross-functional stakeholder management and ability to influence without authority.


About the job
BetaDev is a specialist group within Go-to-Market (GTM) Product Strategy and Operations. We partner with Global Product Leads (GPS), Product Managers, and gTech to test the newest alpha and beta products with Google's largest advertisers (LCS). Our mission is to evaluate product-market fit, ease of adoption and performance to ensure Google Ads products are market-ready, intuitive, and built to scale globally.
In this role, you will help accelerate the speed-to-launch decisions for early-stage ad products. By designing and managing small-scale pilots and onboarding advertisers to use the new products, you will develop strong expertise on the new product and gather critical quantitative data and direct qualitative feedback on product-market fit, ease of use/adoption, and performance. Your primary objective is to translate these findings into actionable insights to assess scale readiness, help refine product roadmaps, and inform commercialization decisions.
The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $124000 - $177000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Manage project scoping, execution, and feedback synthesis for multiple product pilots.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to help define test hypotheses and evaluation criteria, and support alignment on overall testing approach. Communicate status updates with key stakeholders.
  • Assess new products against market fit, adoption, and performance metrics, augmented by customer pitch calls, interviews, and surveys and lessons learned during product troubleshooting. Deliver a final analysis to product decision makers to help inform next-stage incubation and commercialization decisions.
  • Flag and remove execution blockers, pivot strategies based on real market signals, and remain unbiased in assessing readiness. Provide data-backed insights and recommendations to help evaluate solutions and shape product roadmaps based on customer needs.
  • Support the definition of successful launch requirements, partner effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve goals, and continuously improve operations using growing market expertise.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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