This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus. It looks like you haven't submitted a posting request (via forms) for this role just yet! Please complete a request by visiting Step 3 on go/studentpostings. This form is for tracking purposes in relation to all roles featured on the Google Careers Students page. Once our team receives your request, we'll assess the details and take actions accordingly. **Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. + 8 years of experience in management consulting firms, marketing strategy or corporate strategy roles (equivalent to Associate Partner/ Principal level in consulting) or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree. + Experience working with executive stakeholders. **Preferred qualifications:** + MBA or Master's degree. + Experience with problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to executive management. + Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-changing environments. + Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence executives. As a Senior Strategy and Operations Manager, you will serve as a dual-focused leader, blending high-level planning with a partner for leadership. In your Strategy and Operations capacity, you will separately handle ambiguous business tests, driving initiatives from conception to implementation by translating insights into actionable plans and defining change management strategies. Concurrently, you will act as a go-to partner to leadership, providing counsel and managing their priorities to represent their goal to the organization. This role offers exceptional visibility and access to leadership, allowing you to influence the business direction while fostering a better working culture through your community contributions. In return, the role provides exceptional visibility and direct access to Google’s leadership and high impact potential. 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. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $165,000-$245,000 + 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 (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) . **Responsibilities:** + Lead the development and execution of Ads marketing-strategies, including market-analysis, goal-setting, and resource-allocation. Drive projects from inception to completion and lead planning processes. + Provide insights and recommendations. Drive annual/quarterly planning and OKR tracking. Align stakeholders with competing objectives and influence them to achieve desired outcomes. Be thought-partner for leadership. + Serve as the go-to executive leader for providing clarity on goals, direction, and priorities. Maintain deep knowledge of Google-wide strategy, Ads Marketing OKRs, KPIs, business plans, and operating plans. + Structure and analyze complex problems to develop data-driven recommendations. Use data and analytics to establish business priorities, identify growth opportunities, and drive investment decisions. + Analyze data related to business-growth, customer-engagement, and marketing-performance. Improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. Lead and drive consensus among stakeholders for programs and projects, fostering collaboration and ensuring 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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.