Strategy and Operations Manager, Partnerships

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in Sales Operation, Product Strategy, or Strategy Consulting.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience developing frameworks and understanding business constructs and macro-environments.
- Experience with stakeholders and project management, collaborating across various functions.
- Ability to solve strategic and operational problems, and lead and execute strategic and operational initiatives for organizations.
- Ability to guide decision-making and articulate business needs and solutions.

**About the job**:
The Knowledge and Information Partnerships group negotiates and manages Partnerships for content (e.g., data licensing agreements), integrations and commerce. These partnerships help build and differentiate Google’s products in Search, Assistant, Geo (Maps, Local), Ads, and Commerce areas.

The team works to help drive strategy and execution for Knowledge and Information. We focus on delivering thought leadership, operational knowledge, and executive level narratives to help advance Knowledge and Information and Google’s product mission. The team works directly with Knowledge and Information leaders on priority topics across all product areas and helps the global organization identify, plan, and execute against priorities.

As the Strategy and Operations Manager, you will help drive strategic decisions related to product and partnership growth opportunities in priority countries and across the array of products and teams within the Knowledge and Information business and beyond. You will work to execute and coordinate various types of cross-product area or country-level projects while partnering with the Research and Core team to support operations and strategy formulation. You will work with local and global stakeholders within Partnerships, Marketing, Product, and broader Global Business Organization to articulate and synthesize key product priorities and help teams report on progress to executive leadership.

The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google’s Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.

**Responsibilities**:

- Partner with the Research and Core team to support strategy formulation and operations.
- Work with Knowledge and Information teams to help set and communicate cross-product area Knowledge and Information country strategy to GBO and other cross-functional stakeholders. Identify areas of collaboration within and across Knowledge and Information and build relationships with local and global stakeholders.
- Support cross-product area efforts like business planning and cross-functional coordination with Product, marketing, GTM, and other functions.
- Support the team on product priorities to positively influence global product strategy.
- Create simple and persuasive narratives to inform and influence stakeholders.

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