Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in strategy or management consulting or corporate strategy, including sales or GTM strategy in the tech industry.
- Experience in program or project management, managing cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or MBA.
- Experience leveraging analytical skills (e.g., financial modeling, Google Sheets, SQL, Looker, etc.) to problem solve, influence business leadership, measure outcomes, and evolve recommendations based on results.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and influencing to drive operational excellence, delivery of priority initiatives, process improvements, and change management.
- Experience delivering reporting and presentations to audience, asking questions, and leading conversations.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to derive business insights from data.
- Excellent project management skills to lead operational initiatives in a fluid environment.
About the job
As a Strategic Initiatives Senior Manager, you will be a part of our Global Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy and Strategic Initiatives team that plays a critical role in developing the strategy for how Google Cloud operates, goes to market, and makes investment decisions globally. You will help define our overall go-to-market strategy, propose where we make investments, lead initiatives/programs, analyze the financial viability of different decision-making options, and study the market. You will be a partner of the senior leadership of Google Cloud and will build relationships.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across several cross-functional Google teams in order to set and continuously update the overall Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for Google Cloud.
- Work with the leadership team to define where we make investments in terms of headcount, infrastructure.
- Execute initiatives to set up and optimize our organization and its operating model to drive significant growth of the business.
- Conduct a detailed analysis of financial viability of our business to understand the relative profitability of solutions, markets, and verticals in order to enhance the Profit and loss (P&L) of the business.
- Study the macroeconomic and trends in the market to understand specific new initiatives we can undertake to accelerate our growth.
