Global Retail Go-to-Market Manager, Devices and Services

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 9 years of marketing experience.

• 4 years of global retail marketing experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience successfully launching and marketing consumer electronics products in retail.
• Experience working with teams that are geographically dispersed.
• Excellent leadership, change management, and organizational management capabilities.
• Excellent problem solving skills.

About the job

Whether you're on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Chrome, Android) or a business product (Google Ads, AdSense, Google Marketing Platform, Analytics), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product's journey. From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization and external communications, you help shape the representation of the product and help it grow a consumer base. This means you work with a cross-functional team across Sales, corporate communications, legal, webmasters, product development, engineering and more. In this role, you'll be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.

As the Global Retail Go-to-Market (GTM) Manager for our third-party retailers, you will support our Google hardware Go-to-Market strategy from beginning to end. You will contribute to advocating for Google products and help grow an engaged user base. From developing standard frameworks (e.g., briefs, marketing return on investment) to establish processes (e.g., retailer requirements, scorecards) and concepts to reimagine how we Go-to Market (AR). You will work with a cross-functional team across Product, Business Development, Sales, Product Marketing, Retail Operations, and Legal to bring your insight to life offline and online.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for defining and shaping global multi-year omni-channel retail strategies for cross-portfolio supported by insights and operating metrics.
• Leverage executive presence to drive alignment and decision making with executive stakeholders on Go-to-Market strategies.
• Be the primary point of contact for Omni-channel Go-to-Market for all internal Retail Marketing teams and cross-functional stakeholders including Product Management, Engineering, Brand Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Finance.
• Build business cases for opportunities. Develop insightful recommendations on strategic opportunities and operational efficiency.
• Pioneer and oversee new paths to Go-to-Market.

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