Strategy and Operations Senior Associate, Business Strategy Operations

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in management consulting, business 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 business or product and strategy consulting.
• Experience in digital ads products.
• Knowledge of the business cycle.
• Excellent problem solving, project management and business acumen skills with the knowledge of digital ads and Google’s business.
• Excellent networking and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across multiple functions.

About the job

The team is responsible for setting go-to-market strategy, shaping priorities and resources to accelerate business growth, and commercializing the Ads products. The team plays an important role in building go-to-market infrastructure from tooling to enhancing Global Business Organization business skills to ensuring flawless execution and operations against business outcomes and priorities. Go-to-Market (GTM) has teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas and in global teams that work across the business areas.

Responsibilities

• Define project scope, focus areas, analysis needed to uncover opportunities and drive stakeholder alignment and consensus to deliver business impact.
• Gather data and conduct analysis supporting ongoing hypothesis that will support executive team discussions and generate insights.
• Produce analysis, thought leadership and perspectives and help to build problem structuring and executive communication that can be utilized for business planning within the team.
• Engage and influence executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners to obtain support for product activation programs and strategies.
• Design and implement operational processes within your aligned domain.