Product Operations Partner, Core, Headcount and Hiring Operations

PROGRAM_MANAGEMENT
USA
November 12, 2025
FULL_TIME

Job Overview

  • Date Posted
    November 12, 2025
  • Location
    USA
  • Expiration date
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Job Description

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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
  • Experience in managing the planning cycle for an organization with cross-functional engagement and prioritization.
  • Experience delivering program outcomes that achieve business goals and drive measurable impact.
  • Experience performing data analysis to identify key insights and inform decision-making.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience communicating effectively with cross-functional teams to drive project initiatives and achieve shared objectives.
  • Experience with headcount management tools and leading operational/strategic initiatives.
  • Experience overseeing annual planning mechanics (e.g., headcount, operational expenditure) for a product or technology area.
  • Excellent influencing skills and change management experience with the ability to successfully manage complexity and multiple priorities.

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 Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $144,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.

Responsibilities

  • Help launch a more formal go-to-market approach to pillar engagement and partnerships across multiple Product Areas. Serve as a primary Point of Contact for assigned Pillars to ensure deeper, consistent engagement.
  • Establish and lead operating processes such as managing the end-to-end processes for tasks such as incremental reserve headcount requests from the pillars, including trade requests.
  • Manage the pillar headcount plan change process end to end, including clarifying the tracking and governance aspects.
  • Establish a pillar headcount and hiring operations maturity model that can be used to guide Pillars toward best practices and benchmarking current efforts.
  • Explore and address areas of duplication across pillars, analyze best practices from other parts of the company (or within Core, outside Google, etc), and explore other ways to support our pillars and increase operational efficiency across the organization.

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 Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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