Chief of Staff Project Lead, EMEA at Google

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience with Google’s Ads business.

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to lead complex operational and strategic initiatives.
• Ability to grow and exercise judgement in a fast moving environment and ambiguity.
• Ability to collaborate with ideas, energy, determination, and a passion for the business who can work with people from a broad range of experience.
• Excellent communication, people management, and presentation skills, with the ability to write well and translate complex issues into simple language that people can understand.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to move from detail to executive level strategy and presentations.
• Excellent influencing and executive stakeholder management skills.

About the job

• 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

• Manage components of regional governance and operational cadence, such as Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) alignment, with limited guidance to ensure organizational effectiveness and alignment with leadership expectations.
• Support executive engagement strategies and customer sponsorship by distilling insights into structured narratives and recommendations for high-profile leadership engagements.
• Identify creative ways to improve information flow and regional processes, utilizing better methods and tools—including AI—to drive efficiency and value creation across the region.
• Lead specific components of high-impact special projects, transforming undefined risks or early-stage ideas into well-structured project plans with clear activities and milestones.
• Partner across teams (e.g., GTM, Finance, and People Operations) to develop business solutions and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders to ensure organizational alignment.