Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in product strategy.
• Experience in Management Consulting, Corporate Development, Product Management, Engineering, Operations, and/or Finance/Investment Banking/Venture Capital.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree in a management, technical, or engineering field.
• Expertise in journalism or media, connections to newsrooms across region/globe.
• Ability to create effective relationships, influence, and collaborate internally and externally at all organizational levels.
• Effective strategic and analytical capabilities, with the ability to collaborate well in a team environment.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and business acumen.

About the job

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.

The mission of News is to empower everyone to understand the world through access to high quality news. Our team brings users the News across a variety of Google products and surfaces. We are often the first stop for people to learn about events of the day, to corroborate new information or to gain context around a developing story.

This role is focused on some of the most pressing strategic topics for Google, and as a result includes engagement with a broad array of stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and broader cross-functional teams including Marketing, Partnerships, Legal, Policy and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Structure complex, ambiguous, and potentially charged business issues for the News team, with particular emphasis on the EMEA region.
• Identify News product white space and opportunity for EMEA by keeping a pulse on News industry trends and product performance in the region, and shaping resulting product strategy recommendations.
• Build consensus among cross-functional teams and influence decision making within executive-level cross-functional audiences.
• Lead seamless and efficient execution against recommendations.
• Ensure clear and consistent narrative and product strategy decisions across EMEA.