Product Strategy and Operations Lead, Market Intelligence

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About the role

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. The team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, applying solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines. Roles often include strategy (analyzing industry trends, building business plans), operations (running organizational cadence, connecting functional lines), and communications. The team partners with senior leadership to run high‑impact, cross‑cutting projects and helps Engineers, PMs, UX, and other functions build amazing products and deliver them to users.

As a Lead for market insights, you will build a robust, scalable platform to monitor and collect critical signals of market intelligence and participant behavior, track and identify trends, and stay one step ahead of customer needs. You will handle inbound executive requests for information and proactively surface patterns for leaders across Google Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Identify and solve organizational problems by defining, leading, and establishing effective operating programs, processes, and tools to achieve key business goals.
• Influence cross‑functional teams and executive management to drive complex, strategic programs and market‑intelligence initiatives to successful completion.
• Develop AI‑driven agents and processes to monitor, collect, and analyze participant and market intelligence data in near‑real time at scale.
• Build and scale a robust data repository to proactively track market shifts, participant focus areas, and rapidly answer high‑priority executive inquiries.
• Create and deliver high‑impact presentations and visual displays of quantitative insights to communicate market trends and strategic recommendations to stakeholders.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 11 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

• Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure or SaaS commercial programs and business models.
• Exposure to statistical analysis, driver analysis, and incrementality calculations.
• Ability to form excellent working relationships across business, operational, and technical functions.
• Comfort with sprints to rapidly answer executive asks.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits: 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment.
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) plus 5 discretionary sick days per instance.
• Maternity Leave (Short‑Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28–30 weeks.
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks.
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Seattle, WA; Sunnyvale, CA (all USA).

Pay

US: $176,000 – $256,000 (USD) + 20 % bonus target + equity + benefits.