Product Planning and Launch lead, Google Nest London, England
Job description
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working with consumer electronics, launch process, and business operations.
- Experience with project management.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA degree.
- Experience working across regional geographies.
- Experience working with the smart home or tablet industry with knowledge of the launch process and business operations.
- Ability to achieve results in a culture that favors collaborative decision making.
- Ability to build relationships and influence cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent organizational, project management, and problem-solving skills.
About the job
In this role, you will work as our Devices and Services Product Area (DSPA) team who researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make our users interact with computing faster, powerful, and seamless. The Pixel Product Planning and Launch Team and Google Nest Team are looking for entrepreneurial minds including business and program management backgrounds to optimize and scale up Google’s Phone business in Europe.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Responsibilities
- Lead critical aspects of Product Planning and Launch focusing on launch strategy.
- Lead/assist in core initiatives involving regional launches and program sustainability. Drive the development of a Plan of Record (POR) for activities that affect multiple cross-functional stakeholder groups. Prepare launch checklists and create contingency plans.
- Own significant elements of launch end-to-end across, leading across product, go-to-market, partnerships, marketing, forward, reverse, and operations activities. Coordinate with global/local and cross-functional program managers (e.g., business, marketing, supply chain) achieving global synthesis for Pixel tablet and Nest Product teams.
- Prepare and distribute various reports and updates on the status of the project to various audiences, including executive management, functional management, etc.
- Launch products internally and externally, as well as being a general advocate for Pixel Tablet and Nest products in region.
