Head of Strategy and Operations, GTM, Strategic Initiatives

As a part of gTech Ads, you will be responsible for delivering support and media and technical services for customers big and small across the entire Ad products stack, helping customers get the most out of Ad and Publisher products and guiding them when they need help. You will provide a range of services from enabling better self help and in-product support, to providing better support through interactions, setting up accounts and implementing ad campaigns, and providing media solutions for customers business and marketing needs and providing technical and measurement solutions along with consultative support for our customers, ranging from bespoke and customized ones for top customers to scalable support for millions of customers worldwide.

As a part of the gTech GTM organization, you will ensure gTech’s ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly, contributing to setting strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy, bringing an analytical and strategic mindset with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a thought partner and trusted advisor to the global gTech Ads leaders to land the present and shape the future of Google Services.
• Enable business to land existing and new services/ service constructs, drive new services and support constructs in partnership with GTM.
• Identify, own, and drive gTech-specific analyses and deep-dive projects across Global Business Organization (GBO) while partnering across teams to execute on recommendations.
• Plan and execute various efficiency-driving initiatives for multiple executive stakeholders.
• Collaborate with leaders to provide operational business reviews, lead business planning and coach and mentor a team who deliver on these core priorities: narrative building, core strategy development, data driven analysis and stakeholder management.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate advisory experience, or 8 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• 5 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.
• Experience as a global people manager leading workforce.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in solutions and operating model of gTech Ads.
• Experience in media, marketing, and complex data sets, along with global strategy initiatives, managing executive stakeholders, and commercial acumen.
• Experience in working with executive stakeholders from different teams.
• Experience in building, managing, and developing a team across multiple sites.
• Ability to lead global strategic initiatives and land global concepts in regions.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; London, UK; Atlanta, GA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Bruno, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

The application window will be open until at least May 19, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.