Google

Product and Strategy Operations Lead, Merchant

Google$222K — $308K *
Consumer Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years in management consulting, product management, strategy, or analytics in tech.
  • Experience with data analysis and managing cross-functional projects.
  • Skilled at working with stakeholder ecosystems and managing alignment initiatives.
  • Preferred: Master's, PhD or equivalent in Business, Public Policy, or a technical field.
  • Preferred: experience in digital wellbeing, parental controls, or tech regulatory dynamics.
  • Preferred: experience delivering strategic recommendations to executives.

Responsibilities

  • Shape strategy and narrative frameworks for Google Shopping.
  • Establish and execute cross-functional governance structures and forums.
  • Manage business cadence including OKRs, QBRs, and executive engagements.
  • Optimize cross-functional operations by identifying gaps and solutions.
  • Drive scope definition and translate operational impacts into business milestones.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare options.
  • Generous paid time off and parental leave policies.
  • Equity compensation and annual bonus targets.
  • Opportunities for professional development and learning.
  • Inclusive company culture promoting employee wellbeing.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 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 working with stakeholder ecosystems and managing cross-functional alignment initiatives.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree, PhD, or equivalent practical experience in Business, Public Policy, or an engineering/technical field.
  • Experience in trust and safety, digital wellbeing, parental control ecosystems, or consumer policy/regulatory dynamics in the tech sector.
  • Experience delivering strategic recommendations to facilitate decision-making at the executive level.
  • Experience using R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product and engineering teams.


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.

As a part of the Strategy and Operations Lead, you will serve as a critical strategic partner to executive leadership within the Merchant organization. Your role is designed for a highly strategic, curious, and relationship-driven leader who excels at navigating complex organizational matrices and connecting dots across different product areas. You will be responsible for balancing high-impact strategy and ambiguous special projects with running a clean, culture-oriented business cadence, all while maintaining the trust and authority required to engage directly with executive leadership.Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.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

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Responsibilities
  • Shape strategy and narrative frameworks to weave Google's Shopping offerings into a cohesive goal.
  • Establish and execute cross-functional governance structures, stakeholder forums, and operating models.
  • Manage business cadence including Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), and Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs), and quarterback executive engagements, partner summits, and global forums.
  • Optimize cross-functional business operations by identifying gaps and executing solutions that require broad executive buy-in.
  • Drive scope definition, operationalize intake processes, and translate operational impact into clear business milestones.


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.
Learn more about Google
Size
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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