Strategy and Operations Principal Lead, gTech Users and Products Chief of Staff Team

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.

The Go-to-Market (GTM) team in gTech strategy and operations is looking for a Chief of Staff to support the VP of gUP (gTech Users and Products) and the leadership team.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate advisory, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA degree.
• Ability to understand and articulate the big picture to executive teams, while maintaining exceptional attention to execution details.
• Ability to influence without authority, working on and with technical and cross-functional or highly matrixed teams who do not report into this role to get things done.
• Outstanding program management with ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  
• Distinctive problem-solving, analytical and communication skills with demonstrated ability to effectively facilitate complex meetings with executives and partner across multiple functions in an organization.
  

Responsibilities

• Work with leadership to define our Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and priorities, ensure resources are deployed to our most impactful initiatives; and organizing and prioritizing the agenda for executive weekly meetings and offsites.
• Drive internal executive presentations and communications. Partner with our communications leads to provide the business input and draft all hands, communications to the organization, newsletters, etc.
• Manage project priorities and initiatives and program efforts on behalf of the VP of gUP and Managing Director of gUP strategy and operations.
• Work cross-functionally with Finance, People Operations, Marketing, and Communications teams to scope, manage and execute strategic projects.
• Partner with other chief of staff on organization-wide alignment projects.