Associate Principal, Business Operations and Strategy

Google Google · Big Tech · San Jose, CA +3

This role is within Google's central Business Operations and Strategy team (BizOps), which functions as an internal consulting group. The team tackles strategic, operational, and organizational improvements across Google's product areas and functions. Responsibilities include shaping go-to-market strategies for generative AI, defining and executing strategies for an AI-native enterprise, developing monetization strategies, and exploring new business ideas. The role requires structuring ambiguous business issues, analyzing information, developing recommendations, building consensus, and influencing executive decision-making. The role also involves operationalizing recommendations with cross-functional teams and building relationships across Alphabet.

What you'd actually do

  1. Structure ambiguous business issues for the Google executive team.
  2. Gather and analyze information quickly and solve problems effectively.
  3. Develop compelling and insightful recommendations.
  4. Build consensus among cross-functional teams and influence decision making within leadership audiences.
  5. Work with product managers, leadership, and functions to operationalize recommendations.

Skills

Required

  • management consulting at the project lead or managerial level
  • corporate strategy
  • 5 years of experience

Nice to have

  • Advanced degree in a management, technical, or engineering field
  • management consulting firm with a strong performance trajectory
  • technology, media, or a telecom company or education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
  • strategy or in a business operations environment
  • leading client projects and owning operational and initiatives
  • guiding consultants
  • excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
  • Excellent problem-solving, modeling, and presentation skills

What the JD emphasized

  • shaping how we go to market with generative AI
  • transforming Google into the world’s first AI-native enterprise
  • developing monetization strategies