Product Strategy and Operations Analyst, Knowledge and Information

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience working in an analytical capacity in a management consulting, investment banking, business intelligence, data science, or corporate strategy area.
• Experience driving strategy recommendations through statistical analysis (e.g., in SQL, R, Python, STATA, MATLAB).

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to communicate and influence effectively by presenting data in a compelling way.
• Excellent data analysis, modeling, SQL, and presentation development skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills, combined with sound business judgment.

About the job

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 executive 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.

As a Product Strategy and Operations Analyst on the Knowledge and Information (K&I) team, you will help shape the collective future of our consumer product portfolio and accelerate execution against our highest priorities. You'll enable greater strategic direction, closer connection, and more effective execution across all of the product areas in the organization and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Strategy and Operations colleagues to define hypotheses, gather relevant data, execute robust analysis, and synthesize and communicate findings effectively at multiple levels of the organization.
• Support business planning and core operations across the organization, optimize processes for speed, efficiency, and flexibility, and provide program management as needed.
• Navigate through ambiguity, define a program/process to address complex problems, and implement solutions that improve the organization's effectiveness.
• Enable principled, data-driven decision and operational effectiveness through design, creation, and maintenance of K&I-wide datasets, dashboards, and custom analyses.
• Drive analytics and reporting with SQL and Google Data Visualization tools. Track key industry trends and competitive insights.