Senior Director, Chief of Staff, Strategy and Operations

AI Foundations is seeking a highly strategic, forward-thinking, and product-focused leader to serve as Senior Director, Strategy & Operations/Chief of Staff. In this role, you will serve as a primary strategic advisor to the AI Foundations (AIF) leadership team, driving agile strategic planning, and serving as a key thought leader in defining the future of AI infrastructure at Google.

As a key member of the AIF organization, the Senior Director, Chief of Staff serves as a vital partner in strategy, thought leadership, and high-stakes execution for the AIF lead. In this capacity, you will lead the development and implementation of the organization's overarching strategic vision. Your core focus will include evaluating primary strategic decisions, steering the long-term business cadence, and ensuring that daily operations are perfectly aligned with our multi-year goals.

Combining strategic oversight with operational accuracy, this role involves navigating workstreams such as the rhythm of the business and functional collaboration with Core central Strategy and Operations (S&O), AIF product, and engineering teams as well as other pillars of Core. You will play a central part in scaling and maturing the organization. You will collaborate with Core executive leadership and cross-functional teams to define, communicate, and implement organizational priorities.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Develop a scaled strategic narrative across all components of the business, synthesizing communication decisions between management and the broader organization, and ensuring strategy and priority alignment.
• Establish and run a solid business cadence, driving regular business reviews with executive stakeholders and key partner teams enabling annual strategic planning, HC and budget management, conflict management, running programs to improve efficiencies, growth and scale.
• Drive the formation of our strategic vision and roadmap, and define and lead strategic and operational initiatives. Serve as proxy for the VP of AIF.
• Manage and lead critical operational initiatives across AIF, developing compelling recommendations to the AIF and Core leadership team.
• Act as an integrator, connecting work streams that would otherwise remain siloed and ensure alignment with cross-functional partners. Lead team of highly-motivated professionals to execute in a fast-paced dynamic environment.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent practical experience
• 15 years of experience working in engineering organizations spanning work across engineering, product, technical program management and operations
• 15 years managing technical projects in the software engineering domain
• 10 years of experience managing a team

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA, Master's degree or PhD in Engineering
• Understanding of the complex relationship between the organization and its environment, identifying connections and adopting different perspectives
• Ability to lead effective teams and major complex programs, including track record of attracting, retaining and developing high-performing teams
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation and organizational skills
  
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills that drive executional impact at scale
  
• Demonstrates comfort with changing specifications or standards