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Title:
Strategy and Operations Manager
Duration:
7+ months (Possible extension)
Location:
Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)
Description:
As a Functional Strategy Generalist, you contribute to core-problem structuring, owning research, data gathering, business insight, and analytic depth to support larger, more integrated, and complex strategic and operational initiatives within the PA, function, or sub-function. You interact regularly with PA, function, or sub-function stakeholders to persuasively communicate recommendations to area leadership, and influence decisions by building consensus and mobilizing towards implementation. You serve as a subject-matter specialist for a PA or function goals, direction, and priorities, with comprehensive knowledge of how the business area fits broadly into the company, as well as its existing OKRs, KPIs, business plans, and operating plans.
Responsibilities
Manage key initiatives from inception to completion, including team-wide initiatives on projects to drive alignment and increase velocity.
Work closely with function leaders, product managers, and product area leadership to drive operationalization of recommendations.
Synthesize, understand, and make recommendations regarding trends in the future of work, including designing business strategy and technology strategy in tandem, translating market insights into action, shortening of strategic planning cycles, transforming digital and agile development, and tapping into ecosystem partners.
Proactively identify defined problems and issues across the PA, function, or sub-function and create programs and processes to solve them. Structure defined and sometimes vague business issues for leadership team, and develop solutions to business and technical problems by documenting key requirements and supporting business case justification.
Support executives in defining overall communications strategy across the function and regions, driving the planning of internal events and aligning internal communications.
Establish and drive processes for effectively defining the function (e.g., OKRs, QBRs, annual planning, team meetings, budget, expenses).
Manage workflows within the targeting and measurement processes, driving collaboration and engagement across stakeholders both to ensure timely and accurate delivery of work.
Make recommendations regarding the development of PA, function, and/or sub-function strategies, collaborating with business area stakeholders.
Drive strategic analysis, defining ways to optimize business performance and ensure best-in-class execution within relevant PA, function, or sub-function.
Gather and analyze large amounts of information quickly and problem solve effectively, driving the development of compelling business recommendations.
Qualifications
Effective questioning
KPIs
Change management
Business insights and analysis
Leadership alignment and stakeholder influence
Business area knowledge
Systems analysis
Project management skills
Data analysis
Stakeholder management
Negotiation
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Strategy and Operations Manager
Duration:
7+ months (Possible extension)
Location:
Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)
Description:
As a Functional Strategy Generalist, you contribute to core-problem structuring, owning research, data gathering, business insight, and analytic depth to support larger, more integrated, and complex strategic and operational initiatives within the PA, function, or sub-function. You interact regularly with PA, function, or sub-function stakeholders to persuasively communicate recommendations to area leadership, and influence decisions by building consensus and mobilizing towards implementation. You serve as a subject-matter specialist for a PA or function goals, direction, and priorities, with comprehensive knowledge of how the business area fits broadly into the company, as well as its existing OKRs, KPIs, business plans, and operating plans.
Responsibilities
Manage key initiatives from inception to completion, including team-wide initiatives on projects to drive alignment and increase velocity.
Work closely with function leaders, product managers, and product area leadership to drive operationalization of recommendations.
Synthesize, understand, and make recommendations regarding trends in the future of work, including designing business strategy and technology strategy in tandem, translating market insights into action, shortening of strategic planning cycles, transforming digital and agile development, and tapping into ecosystem partners.
Proactively identify defined problems and issues across the PA, function, or sub-function and create programs and processes to solve them. Structure defined and sometimes vague business issues for leadership team, and develop solutions to business and technical problems by documenting key requirements and supporting business case justification.
Support executives in defining overall communications strategy across the function and regions, driving the planning of internal events and aligning internal communications.
Establish and drive processes for effectively defining the function (e.g., OKRs, QBRs, annual planning, team meetings, budget, expenses).
Manage workflows within the targeting and measurement processes, driving collaboration and engagement across stakeholders both to ensure timely and accurate delivery of work.
Make recommendations regarding the development of PA, function, and/or sub-function strategies, collaborating with business area stakeholders.
Drive strategic analysis, defining ways to optimize business performance and ensure best-in-class execution within relevant PA, function, or sub-function.
Gather and analyze large amounts of information quickly and problem solve effectively, driving the development of compelling business recommendations.
Qualifications
Effective questioning
KPIs
Change management
Business insights and analysis
Leadership alignment and stakeholder influence
Business area knowledge
Systems analysis
Project management skills
Data analysis
Stakeholder management
Negotiation
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