**Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. + 4 years of experience in management consulting, operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory, or 2 years of experience with an advanced degree. + 3 years of experience with quantitative analysis. + 2 years of experience working with executive stakeholders. + 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives. **Preferred qualifications:** + Experience in problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to the management. + Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence managers. + Ability to deliver results on complex programs in a fluid environment. + Ability to navigate ambiguity, with an entrepreneurial approach. + Excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills. + Excellent communication skills along with attention to detail. Strategy & Operations (S&O) professionals in Google’s Marketing organization provide business critical insights and analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. Whether you are embedded within a specific marketing team to use insights to enable better marketing decisions or the global S&O function to equip the organization to succeed at scale, you will engage with Google leadership in order to establish Marketing’s strategic direction. You will manage planning and operational processes and work cross-functionally with key partners across Marketing, Product, Finance and Engineering to solve our toughest challenges, advocate for high-priority projects, and drive greater operational excellence within Marketing. To be successful in this role, you have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, effective quantitative and communication skills, and the ability to take on broad-reaching and ambiguous questions while working collaboratively and cross-functionally with Googlers of all levels. 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 $113,000-$162,000 + 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:** + Manage programs content and execution, developing deliverables that articulate Google Cloud Marketing (GCM’s) performance against Cloud Marketing’s annual plan globally, and identify priorities and gaps based on performance trends and insights. + Evaluate Marketing performance to deliver insights and make data-driven recommendations for how to adjust the approach to reach the goals. + Improve Marketing by applying an excellent approach to Marketing’s operational processes. Develop and implement standard procedures to improve the programs, including timelines, templates, and deliverables of the programs. + Partner cross-functionally with global and regional teams, leads, marketers, operational teams, leadership, finance, and Sales teams to influence outcomes, operational execution, and drive a successful program. 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.