Strategy and Operations Principal Lead, Global Partnerships
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In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. 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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or graduate degree.
- 10 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, or corporate advisory.
- Track record of leading projects and delivering end-to-end outcomes.
- Ability to proactively identify and assess opportunities, with a strong understanding of their potential impact on business growth.
- Excellent investigative and problem-solving skills, including the ability to navigate ambiguity and design creative solutions to complex issues.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build relationships and gain alignment among various stakeholders.
About the job
The Business Strategy and Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.
The Partnerships Solutions team is a dynamic and integral part of the Global Partnerships organization, acting as "playmakers" who drive value by orchestrating transformational partnerships across Google. We are at the forefront of Google's most critical initiatives, with a strong focus on advancing the company's AI journey, delivering commercial impact, and promoting sustainable ecosystems. This team supports strategy and operations for partnerships across four product pillars Edu, Research Core and Tech and Society. ERC Partnerships (Edu, Research and Core Partnerships) leads partnerships that enable innovative research, solve fundamental problems in technology at scale, and use AI to solve the world's biggest issues. We drive partnerships across the arc of innovation from early stage research, to proof-of-concept.
As the Strategy and Operations Principal Lead, you'll enable the partnerships team to develop and execute on core strategies to delivery on key business objectives. You'll build relationships with executive stakeholders (partnerships) and cross-functional. You will bring commercial and operational excellence to Go-To-Market (GTM) and scaling strategies
Responsibilities
- Develop strategies to advance primary business goals and key initiatives for Research, Core, and Education.
- Serve as a trusted advisor Business Development (BD) leadership, communicating, structuring, and problem solving ambiguous business issues and supporting organization priorities.
- Collaborate with various cross-functional partners including product, marketing, finance, legal, and business development to influence product and GTM strategies.
- Run and improve ERC organization operations by setting targets, automating workflows, streamlining procedures, monitoring business metrics, and optimizing the use of resources.
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