Head of Strategy and Operations, gTech Ads AI Programs

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XNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Hyderabad, Telangana, India; Gurugram, Haryana, India.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.

• 5 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA degree.
• Experience in structuring and facilitating executive (VP+) forums, with the ability to identify urgent issues and navigate competing perspectives.
• Knowledge of Google’s Ads products, sales teams, or service operations, and the customer and competitive contexts in which they operate.
• Ability to own large, complex cross-functional projects or programs and drive end-to-end outcomes and deliverables.
• Ability to understand and articulate the big picture to highly technical teams, and understand detailed technical roadmaps to ensure expedited AI programs execution.

About the job

As the Head of Strategy and Operations for g Tech Ads AI Programs, you will drive top-tier AI programs through every stage of the lifecycle—from opportunity identification and conceptualization to technical development, adoption, and impact realization.

In this role, you will lead a global team of strategic program managers and serve as a key integrator across several critical functions:

• Technical & Product: TAI (g Tech Ads Tools, Automation, and Infrastructure), g Data, and Global Business Applied AI.
• Business & Strategy: g Tech Ads, GTM (Go-to-Market), Finance, and Marketing teams.

You will be responsible for establishing rigorous Technical Program Management to supercharge TAI development and translating long-term strategy into tactical, actionable initiatives for your team.

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and g Tech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

To learn more about gTech, check out our video.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive a holistic AI strategy for g Tech Ads, focus on driving clear business outcomes (customer experience, customer growth and operational efficiency). Lead evolving AI technologies and application to super-charge deployment of AI at scale.
• Define top AI programs, drive roadmaps and execution seamlessly in close collaboration with various Engineering, Product, Program Management, Data Analytics and Business teams.
• Lead and empower a global team of AI strategic program managers, set clear plans and goals, provide oversight, foster collaboration, and remove roadblocks to execution.
• Lead and represent AI programs to executive g Tech Ads or GTM leadership to provide regular roadmap progress, and unlock new opportunities or debottleneck execution to deliver impact on the ground.
• Identify and drive systemic improvement opportunities, ensure excellence in their technical development and product management functions.