Senior Manager, Strategic Planning and Operations, gTech Ads

About the job

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

As the Strategic Planning and Operations Senior Manager, you will lead the team responsible for the gTech Ads success metrics and reporting strategy. You will identify and implement opportunities to measure and drive business growth. You will partner with teams across the business, gSO, and other GTM teams to deliver on the businesses priorities and enable the gTech organization. You will have the opportunity to work on a breadth of topics in strategy and operations (gSO) and get exposure to several aspects of the business. You will support business teams in making strategic decisions and achieving their business objectives. In this role, you will manage and develop a high-performing team of strategy and planning leads.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and 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

• Lead metrics and reporting strategy. Represent gTech Ads in global metrics and reporting forums, ensuring global standards are understood and supported.
• Provide thought leadership and knowledge on operational infrastructure to guide senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Oversee and accelerate the development of executive and self-serve reporting functionalities, and identify challenges of the various operational and strategic projects to the data infrastructure.
  
• Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver on project priorities, drive alignment, and enable decision making.
  
• Communicate findings to executive leadership in the shape of executive-ready presentations and thoughtful facilitation of strategy topics across functional teams.