Strategy and Operations Analyst, Search and Gemini Partnerships
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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory, or 2 years of experience with an advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in a business operations role in the tech industry.
- Experience leading strategy work on ambiguous business problems, collaborating with wide sets of stakeholders in an organization.
- Experience and genuine interest in working with large datasets, identifying patterns and key insights, and troubleshooting data integrity issues.
- Experience managing and enhancing business tools with a wide user base.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
About the job
The Business Strategy and Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.
As a Strategy and Operations Analyst you will plays a critical role within the Global Partnerships Strategy and Operations team by providing operational excellence across the Search and Gemini Partnerships organization. You will leverage investigative and project management skills to ensure our team executes efficiently and effectively.
To be successful in this role, you will have strong project management capabilities, an eye for detail, and a proven track-record of cross-team collaboration on business problems. You have the desire and ability to get things done in a changing environment, all while communicating effectively and maintaining adherence to established processes.
You will be able to manage ambiguous problems, to data tools and troubleshooting data issues, all while collaborating with stakeholders. You will be comfortable thinking critically about issues, relentlessly optimizing operations, executing quantitative and qualitative analyses, preparing briefings and decision framing documents, and structuring and organizing execution. You will take ownership of projects and work collaboratively to deliver impactful outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Own critical business operations/processes for the Search and Gemini Partnership organizations.
- Produce business-critical insights (investigative and strategic) that help improve our operating.
- Collaborate with various cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of metric, reporting, and operating objectives across teams, regions, products, etc.
- Own and improve technical infrastructure and systems critical to Partnerships business (e.g., resource allocation, activity mapping, dashboards).
- Own and manage key operational processes for the Search and Gemini Partnership team, including the OKR cycle and the agreement pipeline management tool (covering data integrity, troubleshooting, and change management). Furthermore, provide financial oversight by developing and maintaining a clear picture of the operating expense (opex) budget, actual spend, and forecasts, while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders on the annual opex planning process.
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