Minimum qualifications:

　　Experience with SQL and other databases, scripting, or business intelligence tools.

　　Experience with project management in a technology or media company.

　　Experience with management consulting or corporate strategy.

　　Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders and leaderships.

　　Preferred qualifications: Understanding of consumption-based business models.

　　Knowledge of technical aspects of cloud computing infrastructure and enterprise IT deployments.

　　Ability to digest large amounts of imperfect data and draw business implications from the data.

　　Excellent communication skills, with the ability to design clear and compelling slides.

　　About the job

　　Google Cloud teams work with schools, companies, and government agencies to make them more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You help fellow sales Googlers by performing budgeting, planning, and analysis activities - and through your passion for the magic of Google products like Google Workspace and Chrome. Not only do you provide invaluable financial and budgeting input, but you also devise new ways for us to identify and communicate with potential opportunities, connecting them to our sales team and showing how Google Cloud can impact their business. Your insight means you excel at customer segmentation, acquisition, and retention. You combine clean communication with strong analytical skills and a solid commitment to understanding customer needs and providing a Googley customer experience. You also peer into the future for us; you examine and analyze statistical data to forecast marketing trends and to identify potential new markets for Google Cloud.

　　As a Strategic Initiatives Manager, you will play a critical role in developing the strategy for how Google Cloud operates and makes investment decisions. You will help to define our overall go-to-market strategy, propose where we make investments, contribute to strategic initiatives, analyze the financial viability of different solutions and verticals, and study the market to ensure we stay ahead of macroeconomic trends and our competitors.

　　In this role, you will be a strategic partner of the executive leadership of Google Cloud and will build relationships of mutual trust. You will be in a high-visibility and high-impact role to shape and guide the strategic decisions that we make.

　　Google Cloud accelerates organizations' ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology - all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

　　Responsibilities

　　Study the macroeconomic and competitive trends in the Cloud market and analyze market data to understand specific new initiatives we can undertake to accelerate our growth. Analyze our current performance and footprint to identify areas of excellence and opportunities for improvement in collaboration with our Business Performance team.

　　Participate in strategic initiatives (e.g., industry winning plans, go-to-market design, operating model design), contributing problem-solving insights and gathering new information in form of external research, interviews, surveys, etc. Feed insights into our core decision and planning processes, making them actionable. Synthesize findings into actionable, executive-ready documents and presentations.