Product Strategy and Operations Lead, AI and Infrastructure

Product Strategy and Operations Lead, AI and Infrastructure

Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Location preference:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA;
Seattle, WA, USA
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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.

• MBA or Master's degree in a management, technical or engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience driving complex strategic and operational initiatives across various functional domains and geographies.
• Experience in using metrics and analytics to business problems and generate actionable insights.
• Ability to deliver effective presentations and build partnerships with executive leaders and their teams across Google.
• Ability to structure analysis and drive/execute data modeling and reporting initiatives.
• Excellent strategic thinking, problem solving, analysis, and written/verbal communication skills, with effective business acumen and attention to detail.

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 by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.

Our roles often include components of strategy (analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (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.

You will specifically work with the external‑facing AI and Computing Infrastructure (ACI) Cloud business and the internal‑facing CoreML and Technical Infrastructure (TI) businesses.

In this role, you will work closely with product management, engineering, and other cross‑functional teams (e.g., Sales, Marketing, GTM, Finance, Corporate Development, Supply Chain) to develop business‑level and product strategies, drive strategic projects, incubate new initiatives, provide analytics support, and facilitate running the business.

• Drive business and product strategy for the various domains within Machine Learning, and AI Cloud systems working with product and engineering leadership.
• Enable the product and engineering leadership to make sound long‑term product strategy decisions to meet the needs of AI2.
• Develop strategic analysis, working with leadership and product management teams (e.g., market sizing, buy, build, or partner assessment, strategy/game theory, portfolio rationalization).
• Develop commercial models, pricing/packaging strategies, business cases, and financial models/projections.
• Provide insightful data‑driven strategic recommendations to leadership, based on strategic insights, analysis, experience, technical acumen, and good judgment.

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