Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 8 years of experience working in a strategy, partnerships/business development, or advisory role
- Experience in the travel industry and experience developing narratives supported by quantitative and qualitative research
- Experience leading operational initiatives that involve coordinating across multiple teams and work streams
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree
- Experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or other role requiring analytical problem-solving and communicating recommendations to executive management
- Experience working with product development teams
- Ability to lead in ambiguity
- Ability to create compelling narratives for different audience levels with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills
About the job
The Business Strategy & 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 Commerce Global Industry Partnerships Solutions team works across Google to bring industry-focused solutions to our retail and travel partners. Our team possesses an understanding of Google Business, Product goals and capabilities, and how the industry can benefit most from these products. We develop insights and thought-leadership, advise leaders on strategy, drive operational efficiencies, build industry narratives, and support product commercialization.
As a Global Industry Partnerships Solutions Lead, you will have the opportunity to shape a cross-Google roadmap on business strategy across products, enable exceptional operational support for our partnerships teams around the world, and help architect and drive key programs that deliver value for Google and its partners.
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
- Collaborate across Google on the development of Google’s Travel Strategy to bring helpful solutions to our users and partners in the Travel industry.
- Identify and vet Travel solutions, bringing together the best of Google’s products and services.
- Manage qualitative and analytical projects simultaneously while collaborating with cross-Google Partner Managers, Product Areas leads (e.g., Travel, Google Cloud, Google Ads, etc), Sales, Business Development, and Finance teams to enable a coordinated approach to making business agreements.
- Drive cross-Google alignment to build and communicate narratives around Google’s solutions for Travel and understand project dependencies and remove barriers through clear communication with stakeholders.
- Understand Travel opportunities and risks associated with Google’s engagement with the industry and foster collaboration between leaders and teams to inform and influence decision-making on strategic initiatives and solutions.
