Business Operations Principal, Core

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.

The Business Operations and Strategy team at Google plays a critical role in defining and driving strategic, operational and organizational improvements across the company. The team, also known as "BizOps", operates like an internal consulting group working on a range of critical projects and issues.

Google's leadership team hand-picks business challenges, and members of Business Operations (BizOps) work in small teams to find solutions. These include defining and executing our strategy on company-wide priorities like transforming Google into the world’s first AI-native enterprise, shaping the development of AI technologies and products, and developing go-to-market or monetization strategies as Customer Zero of these products. BizOps is at the forefront of Google's fast-moving strategic priorities like AI Transformation, addressing operational challenges and enabling innovation.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

US: $176000 - $256000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Work with the company's executive leadership to define, launch, drive and operational initiatives.
• Structure and execute operational and initiatives by developing work plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses, and developing final recommendations.
• Lead cross-functional, global teams to provide direction on the execution of tasks.
• Communicate findings to management and to the broader organization.
• Drive recommendations through to implementation and results.

Qualifications

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.
• Experience leading teams on cross-company initiatives and aligning recommendations with executive leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) and the ability to influence cross-functionally at various levels.