Head of Strategy and Operations, Platforms and

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory experience or 8 years of experience with an advanced degree.
- 5 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience managing people or teams.
- Experience structuring strategy for business organizations, including experience in either management consulting or within internal strategy teams.
- Experience working in a highly matrixed and cross-functional organization.
- Experience partnering with executive level stakeholders.
- Familiarity with key products/business, including Android, Play, Chrome, Messages, Workspace, etc.
- Understanding of product or distribution partnerships.

About the job
In this role, you will manage and coach a team that works closely with the Platforms and Devices Partnerships team in APAC, to enable regional success across the many products supported including Android, Play, G1, and TV, acting as the principal thought partner to the VP of APAC Platforms and Devices Partnerships, working closely with the VP to design and execute a cohesive strategy for the team enabling growth in the region.You will also help shape the new operating model for Platforms and Devices partnerships, designing and executing strategies to ensure that the team is aligned with global partnerships strategy.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**:

- Serve as a thought partner to the APAC Platforms and Devices VP to define Google’s regional partnership, and overall business strategy to build, distribute, and enable products with partners (e.g., carriers, retailers, OEMs) in order to grow the Android ecosystem.
- Lead the Strategy and Operations team to shape and execute strategies to drive growth across Platforms and Devices’s product portfolio by aligning closely with Partnerships team, product, regional leads, and other cross-functional teams to bring Google to our partners.
- Partner closely with Global, AMER and EMEA regional leads to enable a consistent Platforms and Devices partnership and GTM strategy globally.
- Lead a newly-created team distributed across APAC to execute against team goals. Manage and coach through organizational change.
- Land and implement new regional Platforms and Devices operating models.

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