Product Strategy and Operations Principal, AI2 Strategic Partnerships

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA.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:

• Master's degree or PhD.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• Ability to grow in a fast-paced matrixed environment, influence and collaborate cross-functionally with technical leads, engineering fellows, engineering leaders, finance, legal, accounting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong product sense and understanding of the infra stack.

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.

In this role, you will work with the Office of Alphabet's CEO and AI2’s executive leadership to drive the strategic partnerships on various strategic topics including supply discussions, technology collaborations, partnership announcements, etc. You will act as the single source of truth and lead these efforts to ensure the partner engagement with AI2 leadership is efficient and impactful based on the strategic positioning defined by AI2 and Alphabet leadership. AI2 leadership has a clear context based on internal and external research/assessment and is fully debriefed in a relevant context before engaging with partners. AI2 partner engagement is aligned with the rest of Alphabet (e.g., broader Cloud) in terms of messaging, announcements, etc.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $176000 - $257000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Identify problems and issues across the organization and define/lead programs and processes to solve them.
• Influence team members and executive management to act and drive projects to completion.
• Establish and lead operating processes and tools for effectively managing the organization and achieving goals.
• Shape the partnership strategy and establish governance structures/operating models to maximize value for Alphabet.
• Facilitate the discussion between Alphabet/AI2 leadership and strategic partners by building clear artifacts and communications.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .