Strategy and Operations Manager, Global Ads and Commerce Marketing

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in a management consulting, operations, business strategy, marketing strategy, investment banking, venture capital or private equity role.
• 4 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.
• Experience working within a GTM (Marketing/Sales) function.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with investigative problem-solving and quantitative analysis.
  
• MBA or Master's degree in a relevant field.
• Experience utilizing AI productivity tools to solve complex, multi-layered problems and streamline business or development workflows.
• Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence executives.
• Ability to independently navigate ambiguity and lead strategic initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

About the job

As a Strategy and Operations Manager for Google Ads and Commerce Marketing, you will manage the definition of our global Marketing Technology and Applied AI strategy. In close collaboration with cross-functional leaders across Marketing and Engineering, you will define strategic roadmaps and operating plans that enable growth, operational excellence, and innovation. You will lead cross-functional initiatives, align executive stakeholders, and help ensure our technology investments drive long-term business value.

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop global Marketing Technology and Applied AI strategy and roadmaps in close partnership with Marketing and Engineering leaders.
• Support members of Ads and Commerce Marketing leadership team as a trusted thought partner. 
• Lead strategic initiatives and communicate business insights and findings to executive leadership to drive cross-functional alignment.
• Lead the annual strategic planning process and OKR setting to align cross-functional priorities with business goals. 
• Drive financial and resource excellence by overseeing budget, managing resourcing needs, and aligning investments with strategic priorities through the annual planning process.