Strategy and Operations Lead, Global Games Play Partnerships

Strategy and Operations Lead, Global Games Play Partnerships

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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience utilizing AI tools (e.g., Gemini) to automate workflows, scale solutions, and drive operational efficiency.

• Experience driving complex, cross-functional projects with end-to-end ownership.

• Experience with mobile games business models, value chains, and the engaged landscape.

• Excellent investigative and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and resolve complex business challenges.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across the organization.

About the job

As the lead for Global and North America Games Business Operations, you will partner closely with Gaming Partnerships leadership to execute on high-priority strategic initiatives and support efficient business operations. You will lead the development and execution of programs to drive long-term developer ecosystem success and address short-to-mid-term key business goals. You will grow on understanding the complex global gaming business, ensuring the team understands our business nuances better than anyone.

In this role, you will act as a central voice for the Games team, ensuring its needs are met from various operational support teams in terms of tooling, training, reporting, and resourcing. You will help lead initiatives that enable the Games team to deliver/overperform on various business initiatives. You will demonstrate a strong balance between strategic thinking, operational efficiency, and pragmatism in accomplishing goals effectively, helping our gaming partners back to central product and business teams to enable improvements critical to unlocking vertical and regional success.

The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google’s Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $152000 - $222000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Establish an actionable global games strategy that integrates regional considerations to align and guide global Games teams.

• Drive operational excellence through objectives and key results (OKR) tracking and strategic planning, managing the business rhythm and executing projects that solve operational challenges.

• Cultivate a strong business-driven culture by identifying, monitoring, and tracking key drivers to help teams achieve their goals.

• Collaborate across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Business Development, Finance, and Legal to co-develop, align, and successfully land critical cross-functional initiatives.

• Deliver executive-ready strategic insights to leadership while advocating the developer ecosystem's unique complexities to internal Play teams.

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