Central Strategy and Operations Lead, Go-To-Market (English, Chinese)

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.6 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or a strategy and operations environment.
• Experience building high-stakes narratives and presenting to executive-level stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate in English and Chinese fluently, to support the Greater China and Korea stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in structured thinking, storyboarding, and driving high-velocity execution in a global, matrixed organization.
• Experience working within or supporting Greater China and Korea markets.
• Track record of taking ambiguous business problems and turning them into structured projects with a clear plan, scope, and timeline.
• Familiarity with navigating complex commercial agreements or working cross-functionally with Legal, Finance, and Compliance teams.
• Ability to synthesize complex data sets and translate findings into a compelling "so what" for a business audience.
• Ability to move with velocity through rapid organizational change and shift focus between high-level strategy and detailed execution.

About the job

The Go-to-Market Operations (GTM) team ensures that Google's complex and ever-evolving ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting the go-to-market strategy and guiding flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with strong day-to-day operations, while also helping to evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas, as well as global teams that work across the business areas.

As a Strategy and Operations Lead for Greater China and Korea (GCKR), you will act as a critical strategic partner to the regional leadership team and the VP. You will help to navigate a rapidly shifting landscape with high velocity and excellence.

You are a bridge-builder and a translator. You take broad, ambiguous business problems and turn them into structured projects with clear plans. Whether you are crafting a high-stakes narrative for a global executive forum or digging into the details with Legal and Finance to get a complex agreement across the finish line, you bring a management-consulting to everything you do.

In this role, you aren’t just following a process—you are raising the bar. You will challenge the status quo, provide the "so what" behind our data, and mentor more junior team members to ensure our team remains a trusted advisor to the business. If you grow in change and move from high-level strategy to deep-dive execution without missing a beat, this is the role for you.

The Global Business Organization (GBO) is the engine that powers Google’s full ecosystem of products and services to help customers and partners succeed and grow. GBO includes the commercial arms of Ads sellers, business development teams, and customer services and support, as well as overlay programs that enable coordinated engagement with Google's most complex and important customers and partners.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner to the GCKR leadership team, taking highly ambiguous business challenges and translating them into structured projects with clear scopes, workstreams, and execution plans.
• Lead the design and delivery of high-stakes executive narratives.
• Own the "so what" of our regional performance and strategy, shaping the story for APAC leadership and global executive forums.
• Drive high-priority initiatives that require deep cross-functional collaboration.
• Work across different teams to move projects with high velocity and precision.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Use data-driven insights to influence global and regional stakeholders, ensuring GCKR priorities are understood and addressed.
• Lead the strategy and planning cycle for GCKR, ensuring thinking and high-quality output across quarterly and annual business reviews.

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