Product Strategy and Operations Lead, AI Futures Fund, Labs
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
- Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple projects.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree, MBA, or advanced degree in a business or quantitative discipline.
- Experience working in venture capital, startup ecosystems, or early-stage product incubation.
- Experience working with product and engineering teams, particularly in the AI or machine learning space.
- Experience distilling data into presentation decks and communicating strategic narratives to executive leadership.
- Experience operating in fast-paced, rapidly evolving team or product environments.
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.
Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.
US: $150000 - $217000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Drive the operational cadence and business planning for the AI Futures Fund, defining success metrics and tracking the progress of our startup engagements.
- Partner cross-functionally with Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, and internal Labs teams to deliver resources—such as early model access, technical expertise, and Cloud credits—to portfolio startups.
- Identify operational friction points within the fund's engagement and equity funding processes, and design scalable solutions to improve execution velocity and decision-making.
- Synthesize market intelligence within the AI startup ecosystem to provide data-driven recommendations, strategic insights, and thought partnership to Labs leadership.
- Structure complex business challenges and create narratives and presentation decks to communicate the fund's impact and strategy to executive audiences.
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