Head of Strategic Projects, Go-To-Market, Americas

Role Overview

Google's Global Business Organization (GBO) Go-to-Market (GTM) Operations team sets strategy and drives flawless execution across the complex Ads business. Within GTM, Americas Business Strategy and Operations (ABS&O) partners with Americas Large Customer Sales (ALCS), Google's largest business-carrying unit serving major advertisers across the US, Canada, and LATAM, turning company priorities and early-stage ideas into analytics-backed growth initiatives.

Inside ABS&O, the Strategic Projects team serves as ALCS's strategic incubator, building launchpads that propel Google advertising into its next frontier. We partner with senior leadership to shape core organizational investments, prototype AI-first execution models, and lead cross-organization, leadership-sponsored special projects, grounded in five core values:

Responsibilities

• Design and scale operating models, frameworks, and processes that deliver durable growth and impact for ALCS.
• Lead initiatives such as shaping organization investments, prototyping AI-first models, and driving leadership-sponsored efforts that bring strategic platforms to life.
• Own a portfolio of high-trust, high-judgment initiatives sponsored by senior leadership, flexing team capacity to the business's most urgent priorities.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to GBO leaders on key strategic initiatives, framing trade-offs, synthesizing insights into clear recommendations, and shaping the key business decisions.
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of leads and associates; set the operating model, staffing, and talent standards that make strategic projects a career springboard and a magnet for top talent.

Requirements & Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.
• 5 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.
• Experience in people management.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or advanced degree in Business, Economics, Quantitative, or a related technical field.
• Experience in consulting, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, corporate development, or general management/strategy.
• Experience advising and influencing C-suite or VP-level executives on high-stakes decisions.
• Experience with investment allocation, business planning, or capital/resource prioritization in a large commercial organization.
• Ability to set strategy for and leading large-scale, cross-functional transformations from goal through execution.
• Ability to build new functions, platforms, or operating models from the ground up and scaling them across a large organization.

Application Instructions

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