Head of Measurement, Learning and Development

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 10 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate advisory experience, or 8 years of experience with an advanced degree.
  
• 5 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design or a related technical field.
  
• Experience in learning design or strategy higher education, EdTech, or corporate learning spaces.
  
• Experience in project management, including setting vendor strategies and managing third party vendors to drive execution against set Service Level Agreements.
  
• Knowledge of Google Ads Measurement, Privacy and Platforms product suite and seller tools and workflows with a deep focus to help shape the future of Google’s business teams.
  
• Knowledge in enablement or learning programs for business organizations at scale, including training.
  

About the job

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading the planning, design, and implementation of enablement programs globally and across all service channels for Google’s Measurement, Privacy and Platforms product suite. You will use data and design thinking to drive business results through designing and building multimodal learning experiences. You will lead a team that develops and delivers sales and product enablement and business supporting initiatives for sales teams and product enablement to our customer facing teams including sales, customer engineers, and professional services. You focus on building a learner-centered strategy and driving impact by working closely across all relevant stakeholders (product, business, service, marketing, enablement, learning) to secure buy-in for inclusive learning solutions to support front-line business products and capabilities learning needs. Your efforts will ensure proper landing and execution of product programs globally that support high-priority business objectives.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

Responsibilities

• Define, prioritize, structure and execute strategic and operational learning initiatives which includes developing work plans, gathering and synthesizing data, leading analysis and implementing recommendations.
  
• Manage complex learning projects by structuring, launching, and driving projects to inform critical decisions based on hypotheses and subsequent analysis of learner data, business drivers and operating metrics.
  
• Lead multi-dimensional, complex learning initiatives that are foundational elements to the team.
  
• Coach, lead and mentor a team of Learning Specialists focused on the design, execution, and measurement of comprehensive, blended product learning experiences and Mastery programming with global scale.
  
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Marketing, Product, Tools, Go-to-market, Mastery, and Learning and development organizations to inform global integrated product curriculum and certifications for both our internal and external audiences.