Workspace Strategic Planning and Resources Senior Principal
About the job
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- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 15 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company
- 3 years of experience managing or leading teams
- Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects
- Experience in executive stakeholder management, partnering on headcount planning and resource mapping
- Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in an engineering-led organization
- Experience working with product and engineering teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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.
- 3 years of experience managing or leading teams.
- Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.
- Experience in executive stakeholder management, partnering on headcount planning and resource mapping.
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in an engineering-led organization.
- 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 Workspace’s mission is to “Meaningfully connect people so they can create, build and grow together”.
Workspace's suite of products includes Gmail, Chat, Meet, Drive, Calendar, Editors (Docs, Sheets and Slides), Forms, Sites and serving users (consumer and business) globally and Security and Management products for our customers in Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) and Enterprise.
In this role, you will partners with product and engineering leaders to enable better and faster decisions and help scale an organization of engineers, product managers and UX designers/researchers. You will manage financial planning, headcount management, and business planning standards and lead complex, cross-functional initiatives to support Workspace executive leadership.
Responsibilities
- Define and operationalize the Work Space (WS) product and engineering strategy through simplified processes to drive scale and business excellence.
- Innovate how the organization designs, invests, and manages its footprint sustainably and at scale. Own and drive centralized planning and execution of complex, cross-functional planning efforts. Use judgment to build consensus, drive projects, schedule, plans, execution and communication across organizations.
- Develop, standardize and operationalize an end-to-end Rhythm of the Business that facilitates accurate insights, timely decisions and sustainable growth.
- Facilitate interlock across Product, Engineering, and x-functional partners. Build and maintain relationships with executive-level stakeholders (technical and non-technical) across Workspace and Cross- Functional (xFN) teams (e.g., Finance, Staffing, Communications/Public Relations (PR), People Ops), ensuring alignment and executive buy-in.
- Organize and executive central initiatives and relevant communications (e.g. Summits).
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.
