Strategy and Operations Analyst

Job Description

The Strategy and Operations (SO) team sets the strategy and ensures execution of the go-to-market for GCS Display, Video, and Creatives (DVC) team. We provide business insights using analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and drive initiatives. We focus on aligning company priorities with day-to-day operations, and evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

As a DVC SO Analyst, you will lead cross-functional and data-led projects that drive both product and go-to-market decisions. You will create impact by influencing Google's strategy for its Display and YouTube business, lead cross-functional analytical and/or data science projects to influence product roadmap decisions and/or go-to-market plans, and develop insights that solve ambiguous business challenges.

When our millions of advertisers and publishers are happy, so are we! Our Google Customer Solutions (GCS) team of entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and client-focused members are the ''human face'' of Google, helping entrepreneurs both individually and broadly build their online presence and grow their businesses. We are dedicated to growing the unique needs of advertising companies. Our teams of strategists, analysts, advisers and support specialists collaborate closely to spot and analyze customer needs and trends. In collaboration, we create and implement business plans broadly for all types of businesses.

Resonsibilities:
• Analyze data to identify future growth opportunities for Display and YouTube.
• Understand business challenges, synthesize data, and communicate data-backed findings to non-technical executive audiences.
• Work with cross-functional organizations across the Ads ecosystem to drive alignment and collaboration on project recommendations.
• Design experiments, develop statistical models, and build causal inference tools to measure impact.
• Design, build, implement, and manage business reporting tools at scale.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in program/project management, leading operational initiatives.
• 4 years of business strategy and operations, management consulting, sales operations, or business analytics functions.
• Experience using SQL and datasets.

Preferred qualifications:
• Master's degree.
• Experience in managing projects with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with controlled experiments, causal inference, and/or statistical data analysis.
• Experience with SQL and statistical programming languages (e.g., Python, R).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to translate analysis to non-technical audiences.
• Leadership and development skills.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re4b91-18-220-16-184-42 in your application.