Head of Self-Serve Product Strategy and Operations, Google Workspace

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.

Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

We are seeking a visionary leader to join our Google Workspace team as the Head of Self-Serve Product Strategy and Operations. In this pivotal role, you will bridge the gap between high-level strategy and tactical execution, ensuring that our Product-Led Growth (PLG) motions are data-driven, customer-centric, and seamlessly aligned across the organization. This role is ideal for a strategic operator who grows in ambiguous environments and has a proven track record of driving significant business and user growth in a high-scale business-to-business and business-to-consumer ecosystem.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $222000 - $309000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Own all Go-To-Market (GTM) operations for growth initiatives, with a primary focus on scaling self-serve and Product-Led Growth motions across Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer segments.
• Act as a strategic partner to Product, Engineering, Marketing and second-party teams to ensure total alignment on strategic planning, product roadmaps, messaging, packaging, and life-cycle strategy.
• Design and launch sophisticated Product Growth operating models that utilize metric reviews to improve cross product area organizational alignment, execution velocity, and executive decision-making.
• Act as a strategic thought partner driving self-serve operations; triaging urgent, high-priority requests; representing growth leadership to ensure organizational clarity and maintain strategic momentum.
• Lead the end-to-end creation and delivery of the self-serve product growth strategy, specifically focused on driving growth across both consumer and business streams.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.