Product Strategy and Operations Principal

2 Days ago • 11 Years + • Product Management • Operations • $171,000 PA - $254,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Product Strategy and Operations Principal at Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) drives strategic initiatives, leads executive cadence, and key operational processes. This senior role involves close collaboration with Engineering and Product Management leadership to define and execute delivery strategies. Responsibilities include leading marquee customer engagement, aligning cross-functional teams, streamlining communications, and driving business goals. The role also requires partnering with various teams (GTM, Supply chain, Finance, etc.) and supporting GDC leadership on special initiatives. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in management consulting, product management, strategy, or analytics within a technology company, along with strong data analysis and cross-functional project management skills. The position is focused on operational excellence within GDC, a fully managed product portfolio bringing Google Cloud infrastructure closer to customer data.
Must have:
  • 11+ years experience in management consulting, product management, strategy, or analytics in a tech company
  • Experience with data analysis and managing cross-functional projects
  • Strong communication skills
  • Drive delivery strategy and operations through collaboration
  • Lead marquee customer engagement and align cross-functional teams
Good to have:
  • Advanced degree
  • Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets
  • Experience working with Product and Engineering teams
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details


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.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
  • 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.

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is a fully managed product portfolio that brings Google Cloud infrastructure and services closer to where customer data is being generated and consumed. GDC empowers customers to run AI-led services in their own (or a partner) data center, or at the edge, alongside enterprise applications to support mission-critical use cases such as computer vision and Google AI edge inferencing.

GDC Product Strategy and Operations is a growing team within the broader Infrastructure and Solutions Group (ISG) Product Strategy and Operations team to help drive strategic and operational excellence for each one of our focus areas.

As a senior member of the GDC Product Strategy and Operations team, you will drive key strategic initiatives, lead executive cadence and key operational processes.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$254,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Engineering and Product Management leadership to drive delivery strategy and operations through governance, communication and cross-functional collaboration (e.g., weekly deployment reviews, marquee customer delivery sprints, etc.).
  • Lead marquee customer engagement by aligning cross-functional teams, streamlining communications to the customer, driving to business goals.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams such as Go-To-Market (GTM), Supply chain, Finance, Capacity planning, etc. (e.g., work with Customer Engineers to collect field feedback, and align on the GTM approach).
  • Provide support for your execution area (e.g., internal usage, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) setting, goals).
  • Support GDC leadership on special initiatives.

Similar Jobs

Zazz - Machine Learning Engineer

Zazz

(Remote)
2 Months ago
ByteDance - Senior AI Space Interaction Industrial Designer

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Google - Software Engineer, Android Video Editing, Google Photos

Google

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Scale AI - Product Marketing Associate

Scale AI

New York, New York, United States (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Trackman - Machine Learning Developer with DSP experience (Python/C++)

Trackman

Hørsholm, Denmark (On-Site)
1 Month ago
PlayStation Global - Technical Product Manager II

PlayStation Global

San Mateo, California, United States (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
ByteDance - Hardware Product Engineer (VR/AR)- PICO

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Alphasense - Product Specialist

Alphasense

New York, New York, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Room 8 Studio - Team Manager

Room 8 Studio

(On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Quizizz - Product Marketing Manager

Quizizz

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Google - Senior Data Scientist, gTech Ads GCS Partner Engineering

Google

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Mashgin - Sales Engineer Director

Mashgin

(Remote)
3 Months ago
Blacksahrk - Software Engineer

Blacksahrk

Graz, Styria, Austria (On-Site)
4 Months ago
ByteDance - Software Engineer Large Model System Graduate (Machine Learning Sys-US) - 2024 Start (BS/MS)

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago
PlayStation Global - Senior Software Engineer (Back End / Machine Learning)

PlayStation Global

San Mateo, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Google - Solution Engineer, Innovation, Cloud Solution Accelerator Workshops

Google

Austin, Texas, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Scale AI - Sales Development Representative

Scale AI

San Francisco, California, United States (Hybrid)
1 Day ago
NVIDIA - Senior Application Software Engineer, Performance

NVIDIA

Shanghai, Shanghai, China (On-Site)
4 Weeks ago
Axon - Senior Machine Learning Scientist II

Axon

Seattle, Washington, United States (Hybrid)
8 Hours ago
Canva - Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Photo AI

Canva

Vienna, Vienna, Austria (Remote)
3 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Kirkland, Washington, United States

buildstsaff - UI Developer

buildstsaff

Marietta, Georgia, United States (On-Site)
6 Years ago
Keywords Studios - Senior Business Development Manager - Localization & QA Services - North America

Keywords Studios

Washington, United States (Remote)
1 Month ago
SmartBear - Account Executive II

SmartBear

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States (On-Site)
5 Hours ago
Google - Software Engineering Manager II, Android

Google

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Days ago
Nintendo - Machine Learning Operations Engineer

Nintendo

Redmond, Washington, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
CD PROJEKT RED - Senior Internal Events and Communications Specialist

CD PROJEKT RED

Boston, Massachusetts, United States (On-Site)
1 Day ago
Eleven Labs - Developer Advocate

Eleven Labs

San Francisco, California, United States (Remote)
1 Month ago
Google - Technical Program Manager II, Software Engineering, Google Play

Google

Austin, Texas, United States (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
New York Times - Indirect Tax Analyst

New York Times

Norfolk, Virginia, United States (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Xsolla - Growth Marketing Manager

Xsolla

Los Angeles, California, United States (Remote)
1 Week ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Product Management Jobs

ByteDance - Principal Product Manager - IaaS AI Infra

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Joyteractive - Producer

Joyteractive

Cyprus (Remote)
1 Month ago
Google - Technical Account Manager, Play Partnerships, Global Business Consulting

Google

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Days ago
Match Group - Staff Product Manager, Machine Learning and Recommendations

Match Group

San Francisco, California, United States (Hybrid)
6 Months ago
Google - Customer and Partner Solutions Engineer III

Google

Boulder, Colorado, United States (On-Site)
2 Days ago
Meta - Product Manager, Machine Learning

Meta

San Francisco, California, United States (Remote)
5 Months ago
Netflix - Title Merchandising Manager - APAC

Netflix

Singapore, Singapore (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Xsolla - Product Owner - Login

Xsolla

(Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Easygo - Product Manager (Payments)

Easygo

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (On-Site)
4 Weeks ago
Netflix - Product Manager, Production Operations Core - Production Data & Workflows

Netflix

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Google

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug