Senior Manager, Platforms and Ecosystems Strategy, Android
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 11 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.
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools, and experience working with product and engineering teams.
- Expertise in data analytics and visualization including experience with SQL or other business intelligence and reporting query systems.
- Experience in strategy or product functions of Smartphone OEMs.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and collaboration skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels, and comfortable with data.
- Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork skills, with ability to take initiative.
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 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.
Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.
Responsibilities
- Lead projects to gather, analyze, and understand research about Android markets, users, partners, and products to develop comprehensive, data-backed assessments of our strategic hypotheses.
- Draw logical conclusions, organized into easy-to-understand frameworks and develop compelling presentations for leadership on business challenges and opportunities.
- Communicate recommendations effectively and adeptly facilitate conversations designed to help leaders make the right decisions.
- Collaborate with Product, cross-functionally, and team members to develop holistic strategies and enable strategy execution in the most efficient way to address our largest challenges and opportunities.
- Work with team members and product area leaders to identify data needs and help develop key insights around Android growth, apps and products distribution and monetization.
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