Strategy Manager, Workspace Strategy and Operations

Google

Seattle, WA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Administration, Business Development, Business Strategy, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Cross-Functional, Customer Experience, Data Analysis, Disability Insurance, Employee Benefits, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Establish Priorities, Executive Relationships, Financial Analysis, Investment Services, Leadership, Life Insurance, Management Consulting, Market Analysis, Market Trend Analysis, Marketing, Materials Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Multitasking, Problem Solving Skills, Product Pricing, Product/Service Launch, Quantitative Analysis, Sales, State Laws and Regulations, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Planning, Venture Capital
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
20 days ago
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 (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

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience in a management consulting, operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital or private equity role, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.
  • 3 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.
  • 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.
  • Experience in business strategy, stakeholder management, research, financial analysis, executive communication.

Preferred qualifications:

  • MBA or Master's degree.
  • Experience with analytical problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to executive management.
  • Ability to develop and understand strategy.
  • Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
  • Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence executives.

About the job

Google Workspace by Google Cloud is an AI productivity suite that is revolutionizing the way people communicate and work with one another. The mission of the Google Workspace team is to meaningfully connect people so they can create, build and grow together. The business is large, fast growing, and looking to accelerate against a backdrop of favorable social, work, and technological trends, particularly the shift toward AI-first work and agentic collaboration.

The Google Workspace Strategy team is responsible for identifying impactful growth opportunities, evaluating market expansion plays, tracking external trends and competitors (especially in the rapidly evolving AI landscape), and analyzing critical aspects of the business.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $141000 - $206000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and support strategic initiatives across Workspace, developing recommendations to the leadership team by analyzing strategic questions, developing and analyzing data, identifying priorities, and aligning with cross-functional partners across engineering, product, Merger and Acquisitions (M&A), partnerships, customer experience, marketing, and sales.
  • Deliver on multiple strategy projects including research and analysis, drafting strategy documents and presentation materials, stakeholder management, communicating findings or recommendations to leadership, and landing the project team's work.
  • Develop an understanding and strategic narrative across all components of the Workspace business and in particular areas (e.g., Go-To-Market (GTM) execution, pricing, product launches, M&A, etc.).
  • Synthesize and communicate decisions between executive management and the broader organization to ensure strategy and priority alignment.
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.

About the Company

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Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V