Chief of Staff, Search+

The Global Product Solutions Strategy and Operations (GPS StratOps) team partners closely with each Global Product Solutions (GPS) leadership team and the regional GTM teams to drive strategic initiatives end-to-end for GBO. The team's job to be done ranges from running point on the GPS annual strategy planning process, defining and aligning Product Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) metrics to steer the Ads business with, prepping product-specfic Business Forecast Meeting (BFM) executive reviews with Google's Chief Business Officer and product-specific Steering Committee (SteerCo) reviews with cross-functional business and product leaders, and one-off, product-centric strategy projects to drive high-impact outcomes in service of product positioning and activation.

The Chief of Staff (CoS) serves as the operational engine for the Search+ leadership team. The role bridges strategic business operations, cross-functional alignment, and organizational culture and health.

The position ensures the leadership team remains focused on high-leverage priorities by managing business cadences, stewarding headcount and operating expenses, driving annual planning and OKRs, and resolving ambiguous, high-stakes escalations.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Drive annual/quarterly planning cycles, timeline creation, and communication. Coordinate cross-functional deliverables, aligning workstreams with GTM priorities to define, track, and grade OKRs while triaging executive requests to streamline decision-making cycles and leadership focus.
• Partner with Finance and HR to manage headcount allocation, identifying efficiencies to optimize resource distribution.
• Structure and run leadership meetings, roundtables, and offsites. Manage agendas, pre-reads, decision logs, and action items.
• Author organization-wide communications and all-hands decks, serving as the central hub for strategic information.
• Collaborate with HR to drive engagement initiatives leveraging survey insights, lead cross-organization programs (including the AI Pillar), and solve complex, ad-hoc operational challenges.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or MBA.
• Experience managing annual planning, opex budgeting, and headcount allocation models.
• Knowledge of digital advertising, go-to-market motions, and product-commercialization lifecycles.
• Ability to communicate complex, ambiguous topics clearly and persuasively to executive leadership (VP+).
• Exceptional strategic writing and presentation design capabilities (adept at drafting strategy memos and C-level presentations).
• Strong problem-solving acumen, comfortable navigating complex datasets to pull business insights and model resource/budget needs.