Strategy Lead, Android, Product Strategy and Operations

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 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 projects.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills.
  
  

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 Mission of the Android strategy team is to proactively drive a tactical agenda and align priorities to enable the healthy growth of the Android ecosystem for users, partners and Google. The team is focused on providing thought leadership and critical insights to enable the best decision-making, at pace and where it matters most.

Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $144,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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 .

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead operating processes and tools for effectively managing the organization and achieving goals.
• Partner with Android product and cross-functional leadership to identify and evaluate, influence and execute on growth opportunities, focusing on data-driven insights and delivering executive-ready content.
• Ensure team stays up-to-date on ecosystem trends, and articulate implications for Android ecosystem.
• Lead cross-functional project teams to structure and execute a range of analyses and develop executive-level recommendations, including but not limited to market sizing and opportunity analysis, benchmarking and positioning, build vs buy analyses, etc.
• Support executive narratives that communicate the Android strategy and how we are executing against our strategy.
  
  
  

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 .

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