Senior Staff Strategy and Operations Lead, AI Foundations

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.

Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $222000 - $308000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/).

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

- 15 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.

- Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.

- Experience developing and executing communications and engagement strategy.

- Experience driving organizational change and managing transformations globally.

- Experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or business strategy.

Preferred qualifications:

- Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.

- Experience defining reusable operating systems and elevating team execution across multiple cross-functional groups.

- Experience driving alignment in high-stakes environments, navigating cross-functional dynamics, and managing multi-layered stakeholder matrices.

- Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.

- Formulate high-ambiguity decision frameworks (platform trade-offs, roadmap prioritization, and multi-team dependencies) and proactively drive alignment on complex strategic bets.

- Architect and lead executive business reviews, operational deep dives, and leadership forums to establish a high-accountability operating culture.

- Serve as the horizontal strategy architect and execution arm for complex, cross-cutting strategic initiatives in close collaboration with internal partners.

- Anticipate organizational bottlenecks, cross-team friction, and delivery risks, establishing clear mitigation playbooks and executive escalation paths.

- Craft and sustain an inspiring, data-grounded strategic narrative across the organization that drives engineering teams to decisive action.