Strategy and Operations Manager, Cloud Marketing
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience in management consulting, operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.
- 3 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.
- 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.
- 2 years of experience working in a Marketing organization.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to executive management.
- Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
- Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence executives.
- Ability to develop and understand strategy.
About the job
Strategy & Operations (S&O) professionals in Google’s Marketing organization provide business critical insights and analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. Whether you are embedded within a specific marketing team to use insights to enable better marketing decisions or the global S&O function to equip the organization to succeed at scale, you will engage with Google leadership in order to establish Marketing’s strategic direction. You will manage planning and operational processes and work cross-functionally with key partners across Marketing, Product, Finance and Engineering to solve our toughest challenges, advocate for high-priority projects, and drive greater operational excellence within Marketing.
To be successful in this role, you have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, effective quantitative and communication skills, and the ability to take on broad-reaching and ambiguous questions while working collaboratively and cross-functionally with Googlers of all levels.
As a Strategy and Operations Manager supporting SMB/Startups and Self-Serve Marketing, you will contribute to the development and execution of team strategies and work with stakeholders across Google Cloud Marketing, Global Growth and Demand, Finance, Sales, and other teams to optimize performance, return on investment (ROI), and operational accuracy. You will contribute to solving business challenges and supporting strategic and operational initiatives while driving the Strategy and Operations for your partner organizations. You will interact regularly with stakeholders to communicate recommendations and influence decisions.
Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $137,000-$201,000 + 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 benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a thought partner to stakeholders, providing support and insights to help achieve team goals. Collaborate with supporting Strategy and Operations vendors.
- Partner with executives across sales and marketing to develop strategic perspectives on topics that drive key decisions and set the future direction for the business, including opportunities for growth and scale.
- Drive strategic budget management, including allocation, negotiation, and process optimization, in collaboration with Operations, Finance, and Marketing to maximize ROI and achieve growth goals.
- Propose, coordinate, and cascade strategic priorities and align marketing budget to identified priorities/investment initiatives through annual planning process.
- Help build and maintain the rhythm of the business dashboards and metrics. Support the running of metrics calls to track progress against goals. Translate data into actionable insights for improving business strategies and program performance.
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