Strategy and Operations Senior Associate, GTM Launch Program (Fixed-Term Contract)

On-site in London·Added yesterday (last checked 22 Oct)

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Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
4 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.
Experience managing and delivering project components.
Experience analyzing data sets.

Preferred qualifications:

MBA or graduate degree, or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience creating complex data sets, data modeling, and reporting.
2 years of experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, or a digital media environment.
Experience utilizing AI tools for advanced problem-solving and workflow optimization.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders.

The role

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

Responsibilities

Manage and deliver full project components with limited guidance, defining actionable plans and aligning cross-functional stakeholders to drive successful implementation.
Identify creative opportunities for process improvement, designing operational cadences and scaling best practices as you transition across different GTM teams.
Develop comprehensive sales, product, or business activation strategies that solve complex challenges, address stakeholder needs, and drive incremental growth.
Build strong working relationships and partner across teams effectively to communicate data-driven recommendations to leadership and influence organizational change.
Draw interpretable insights from sophisticated business analyses, effectively navigating ambiguity to extract actionable recommendations that power the business.

Hiring process

4 steps3 interviewsa task to do6–8 weeks in all

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Assessments
Online test · Not every role
You may be asked to take the Google Hiring Assessment (workstyle skills) and, for some roles, role-related assessments such as a coding exercise.
Recruiter conversations
With a recruiter · Phone call · 1–2 sessions
One or two shorter conversations assessing key skills, sharing information about the organisation and team, and asking about your preferences such as location.
Project work
In your own time · Not every role
For some roles, a small project before interviews: a case study, writing or code samples.
Interviews
With a rotating cast of Googlers
A panel of structured interviews, over video or in person, with a rotating cast of Googlers; open-ended role-related questions scored against the same rubric for every candidate, no brainteasers.
Decision and offer · With a recruiter

Structured interviews: every candidate for a role is scored against the same rubric; no brainteasers.
AI tools are not permitted during interviews.
For some roles, pre-selected interviews happen virtually before final interviews onsite.