Minimum qualifications:

+ Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

+ 6 years of experience in management consulting / venture capital / private equity.

Preferred qualifications:

+ MBA Degree.

+ Experience in a role requiring impeccable business judgment, rigorous analytical problem solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to senior management.

+ Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence senior managers.

+ Tolerance for ambiguity and ability to work in a fast-changing environment, with an entrepreneurial approach.

+ Excellent written and oral communication skills and strong interpersonal skills.

+ Excellent senior stakeholder management and leadership skills.

Strategy & Operations (S&O) professionals in Google’s Marketing organization provide business critical insights and analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. Whether you are embedded within a specific marketing team to use insights to enable better marketing decisions or the global S&O function to equip the organization to succeed at scale, you will engage with Google leadership in order to establish Marketing’s strategic direction. You will manage planning and operational processes and work cross-functionally with key partners across Marketing, Product, Finance and Engineering to solve our toughest challenges, advocate for high-priority projects, and drive greater operational excellence within Marketing.

To be successful in this role, you have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, effective quantitative and communication skills, and the ability to take on broad-reaching and ambiguous questions while working collaboratively and cross-functionally with Googlers of all levels.

You will engage with Google Cloud’s CMO and the leadership team to establish Marketing’s strategic direction, getting broad exposure to our entire business. You will work with teams in all Google geographies and collaborate cross-functionally with key leaders across Marketing, Finance, and Sales to solve our toughest challenges, drive high priority projects, and achieve greater operational excellence within Marketing.

This role requires strong business acumen and operational aptitude as well as exceptional people/communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with Googlers of all levels. You have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, strong quantitative skills, and comfort addressing broad-reaching and ambiguous questions.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $134,000-$198,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) .

+ Partner with leadership to set Cloud Marketing’s annual strategic plan globally, articulating Cloud Marketing’s most critical priorities, and corresponding investment. Develop C-level deliverables.

+ Work across all of Google Cloud’s products to develop solutions to the organization’s toughest strategic challenges and initiatives.

+ Improve overall Marketing efficiency and effectiveness by applying a rigorous approach to Marketing’s operational processes.

+ Evaluate Marketing performance / impact and make data-driven recommendations for how to adjust our approach to reach our ambitious goals.

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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.