Google

Senior Strategy and Operations Principal, Data Cloud, GTM Operations

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

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 with data analysis and managing cross-functional projects.
  • Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience (preferred).
  • Proficiency in R, SQL, or similar analytics tools (preferred).
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills (preferred).
  • Proven ability to drive complex initiatives from start to finish (preferred).

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a proxy for Data Cloud leadership in customer engagement.
  • Own cross-functional initiatives and ensure timely completion of action items.
  • Translate customer feedback into technical gap analyses for product teams.
  • Maintain execution discipline and ensure follow-through on commitments.
  • Understand Data Cloud products and contribute to shaping product narratives.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • 20 days of vacation per year, accruing over time
  • 40 hours of sick leave per year
  • Maternity leave of 28-30 weeks
  • 18 weeks of baby bonding leave
  • 13 paid holidays per year
Full Job Description
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X 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.
  • 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.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
  • Demonstrated experience in strategy, operations, product management, or a customer-facing technical advisory, leadership role within high-growth enterprise tech, cloud environments.
  • Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with a proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Proven track record of driving complex initiatives from ambiguity to completion with a strong bias for action.


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 our enterprise portfolio accelerates its growth and scales rapidly, we are seeking a Senior Strategy and Operations Principal to act as a crucial multiplier and advisor to executive sponsors. In this role, you will be deeply immersed in our business operating rhythm, serving as the connective tissue between accounts, regional sales squads, and cross-functional builders.

You will possess a unique blend of domain depth, commercial acumen, and operational. You will spend significant time interfacing with key clients and market heads, converting nuanced friction points and user blockers into guidance for roadmap owners. With a proactive delivery focus, you will ensure that the GM's priorities are finalized with precision and clear momentum.

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

Responsibilities
  • Act as a key proxy for the Data Cloud leadership in engaging with customers and field organizations.
  • Take ownership of cross-functional initiatives, commitments, and action items generated from leadership reviews and customer engagements, ensuring they are tracked and driven to completion in a timely manner.
  • Translate customer feedback into technical gap analyses and collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to accelerate prioritization, decision-making, and closure for executive stakeholders.
  • Demonstrate excellent execution discipline and follow-through.
  • Leverage your technical background to deeply understand the Data Cloud product portfolio, architecture, and competitive landscape. Help shape product positioning narratives and ensure alignment between field realities and product roadmaps.


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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