Product Strategy and Operations Lead, EarthAI and Weather Activation
Required skills
- Geospatial
- Environmental
- Climate-tech
- Weather data
- Product Management
- Analytics
- Technology company
- GTM strategy
- Product positioning
- Commercial packaging
Nice to have
- Commercial pricing
- SKU structures
- Business packaging
- Complex technology products
- Cross-functional projects
- Enterprise buying cycle
Role summary
The Product Strategy and Operations Lead will drive the go-to-market strategy, product positioning, and commercial packaging for the Weather and EarthAI portfolios. This role involves designing scalable pricing models, enablement assets, and launch materials in collaboration with product, sales, and partner teams. The lead will advocate for user needs, shape product narratives, and align strategic roadmap and commercialization decisions with engineering and research teams. A key responsibility is ensuring rigorous execution and follow-through on cross-functional initiatives stemming from leadership reviews and customer engagements. The role requires a strong background in management consulting, product management, strategy, or analytics within the technology sector, with a focus on geospatial, environmental, climate-tech, or weather data products.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
- Experience with geospatial, environmental, climate-tech, or weather data products.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or MBA.
- Experience designing commercial pricing, SKU structures, or business packaging and launching complex technology products and managing cross-functional projects.
- Understanding of the enterprise buying cycle for data products, and expertise in end-to-end B2B funnel management and pipeline acceleration.
- Ability to quickly grasp and connect data products with customer use cases, understand customer product gaps, and translate them effectively for engineering and product teams.
- Ability to engage directly with enterprise customers and field organizations, building immediate trust and credibility.
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, and ability to influence cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders without direct authority.
About the job:
Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.
Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.
The Geo Makers Go-to-Market team supports our two goals and missions covering developers and sustainability. For developer users, we aim “to power developers’ real-world impact by making Geo’s innovation accessible and useful”. For sustainability users, we aim to “power the most helpful, trusted, and innovative digital representation of the real world for the user ecosystems we serve to empower planetary sustainability and human resilience, now and for generations to come”.
As a team, we achieve this by “accelerating the creation and adoption of products customers and users”. Our team is comprised of a mix of product operations and strategy, product marketing, and growth leaders working in close collaboration with other cross-functional Google teams.
The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.
The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.
US: $222000 - $308000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities:
- Lead GTM strategy, product positioning, and commercial packaging for the Weather and EarthAI portfolios.
- Design scalable pricing models, enablement assets, and launch materials in partnership with product, sales and partner teams.
- Advocate for user needs and represent the commercial product to internal partners.
- Shape product positioning narratives and collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to align strategic roadmap decisions and commercialization startegy.
- Demonstrate excellent execution discipline and follow-through. Take ownership of cross-functional initiatives, commitments, and action items generated from leadership reviews and customer engagements, ensuring they are tracked rigorously and driven to completion in a timely manner.
