Product Strategy Manager, Ecosystem Experience

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 11 years of experience in an analytically-intensive role, such as strategy consulting, investment banking, business intelligence, data science , or corporate strategy.
• Experience in scoping for product, portfolio and ecosystem approach definition.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in product strategy and in running Google-scale initiatives.
• Experience working in a cross-functional, changing environment leading initiatives with executive leaders, and driving stakeholders from "0 to 1".
• Ability to partner with and influence executive leadership, both internally and across Google.
• Ability to parse ambiguous problems, develop effective solutions and implement them.
• Ability to assume a firm sense of accountability and ownership for the project life-cycle, with the capacity to autonomously drive and prioritize multiple concurrent initiatives.

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 Core Experience mission is to help Google teams build unified, desirable, and cohesive products by understanding user needs and creating solutions for simple, valuable experiences across Google products. We manage a broad portfolio, including Google Identity and Engagement, Trust, Google Design Platform, Products For All, Google User Analytics, and Central Experience.

As a Product Strategy Manager, you will work with cross-functional leadership to scope initiatives, develop hypotheses and recommendations, create product strategies and roadmaps, develop narratives, and support various Google-level initiatives. The role sits on the Central Experience Strategy team and focuses on driving alignment and success for Core Experience.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google's products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$254,000 + 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

• Support Google Product Area and Organization level initiatives, and drive alignment with executive stakeholders.
• Develop narrative for our initiatives and effectively communicate goals to executive management and to the broader organization.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, User Experience, Engineering, and Cross-Functional (XFN) stakeholders to develop product strategies and roadmaps, including prioritizing, assessing user needs, and managing cross-functional groups to execute.
• Leverage subject matter expertise to quickly develop hypotheses and recommendations for new initiatives or inbound requests.
• Define scope areas and then translate direction into initiatives and measurable impact.

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 .