Product Strategy and Analytics Lead, Margin Optimization

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Minimum qualifications: MBA or Master's degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience with SQL and data analytics.
5 years of experience in management consulting or product management, and strategy or analytics functions at a technology company.
Preferred qualifications: Experience working with large data sets to derive business insights.
Experience using metrics and analytics to solve business problems and generate actionable insights.
Experience in applying statistics to drive strategy.
Experience defining metrics and structuring reporting dashboards to track the metrics.
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.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is changing the way the world uses cloud computing by exposing our infrastructure and solutions to companies of all sizes, everywhere.
The objective of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Margin Optimization team is to identify strategy opportunities to expand GCP’s profit margins and to enable our products to have the lowest-cost-to-serve, while ensuring exceptional performance and reliability.
We are uniquely focused on the bottom line, driving initiatives to have a direct impact on both the business side and the cost side.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $136,000-$203,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
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Responsibilities Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business leaders in order to identify opportunities, design, and assess improvements to Google Cloud Platforms products.
Plan strategy and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) development for the GCP Margin Optimization Team.
Make strategic and operational recommendations to achieve goals.
Build automated analytics to quickly evaluate decisions through a high quality framework and reports to track business progress to goals.
Conduct non-routine analyses, including data gathering from large and complex data sets.
Employ advanced statistical methods at times, with ongoing deliverables to improve business performance.
Make business recommendations (e.
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, agreement recommendations, product changes, process changes) using effective presentation skills and conveying findings at multiple levels including executive leadership, managers, and peers through visual displays of quantitative information.
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