Strategy and Operations Senior Associate, GTM Launch Program (Fixed-Term Contract)

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.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.
• Experience managing and delivering project components.
• Experience analyzing data sets.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or graduate degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience creating complex data sets, data modeling, and reporting.
  
• 2 years of experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, or a digital media environment.
• Experience utilizing AI tools for advanced problem-solving and workflow optimization.
  
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders.
  

Responsibilities:

• Manage and deliver full project components with limited guidance, defining actionable plans and aligning cross-functional stakeholders to drive successful implementation.
• Identify creative opportunities for process improvement, designing operational cadences and scaling best practices as you transition across different GTM teams.
• Develop comprehensive sales, product, or business activation strategies that solve complex challenges, address stakeholder needs, and drive incremental growth.
• Build strong working relationships and partner across teams effectively to communicate data-driven recommendations to leadership and influence organizational change.
• Draw interpretable insights from sophisticated business analyses, effectively navigating ambiguity to extract actionable recommendations that power the business.