Minimum qualifications: + Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience. + 5 years of experience in program management. + Experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking. Preferred qualifications: + 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects. + Experience with data modeling using dashboards. + Excellent problem solving and analytical skills using SQL. A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines. Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company. As a Strategy Program Manager, you will work with Strategy Operations, product management, research and engineering, and cross-functional teams (e.g., GAPP, marketing, finance, partnerships, etc.) to support driving the product area’s planning rhythm. You will support and drive quarterly and annual planning, OKR setting and alignment, as well as medium and longer-term planning. You will devise research strategies, in partnership with other groups, driving and ensuring cross-functional alignment. You will provide key insights driven by analysis, and lead and support priority initiatives. Google Research addresses challenges that define the technology of today and tomorrow. From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day. Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field -- we publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $139,000-$207,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) . + Support driving the annual planning cycle, multi-year strategic planning and process optimization. + Support establishing a new quarterly reporting rhythm for the organization, providing key insights tethered to the product area’s longer-term plan. + Drive and upgrade the OKR and goal setting rhythm, to ensure alignment with company priorities, and drive to impact, defining and tracking key success metrics/KPIs. + Provide insightful data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership based on analysis, and use data and domain knowledge to identify strategic opportunities. + Lead area-wide cross-functional projects by structuring and executing analyses needed to develop recommendations, and communicate findings to senior management. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.