Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in a strategy or advisory role, working with executives.
• Experience leading operational and strategic initiatives.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA, Master's, or an advanced degree.
• Experience with creating and scaling projects.
• Ability to stay current on technologies and trends related to the consumer hardware industry with distinctive analytical skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and quantitative modeling skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

About the job

The Business Strategy and 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. The Google Devices and Services team's mission is to build helpful experiences for users by combining the best of Google AI, Software and Hardware.

As a Strategy Lead, you will work within the Devices and Services Partnerships (DSP) team, and help to define and drive strategic, operational and organizational improvements within the DSP team. As the Strategy Lead, you will fully immerse yourself in data collection, draw insight from analysis and discussions across the business, and zoom out to develop compelling, synthesized recommendations. You will persuasively communicate your recommendations to executives, help drive implementation and review the impact of your recommendations.

Google’s Global Partnerships team powers extraordinary user experiences through partnerships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides meaningful solutions — from helping publishers and developers grow their businesses through monetization solutions, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We build and distribute products through partnerships across a multitude of product areas, including Ads, Search & Assistant, Geo, Platforms & Ecosystems, Devices & Services, Health, Retail, Payments, Next Billion Users, and more. We collaborate across Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our most complex and strategic partners.

Responsibilities

• Identify/evaluate opportunities and develop insightful recommendations on strategic direction and specific project opportunities that can move the needle in business.
• Lead analysis efforts by developing work plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, and developing final recommendations. 
• Drive recommendations through to implementation, including project execution.
• Work with cross-functional, global teams to influence the direction of senior leadership and cultivate progress.