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Posted 04 June, 2026
Google

Senior Director, Strategy and Operations, Google Education

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

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience in a similar role or in management consulting, corporate development, product management, or engineering.
  • 10 years of experience in cross-functional senior stakeholder management and leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Demonstrated ability to work in a highly collaborative environment with heavy emphasis on teamwork.
  • Ability to influence without authority, working on and with technical cross-functional or highly matrixed teams.
  • Ability to represent complex business or technical concepts with senior leadership.
  • Outstanding problem-solving, analytical, business judgment, communication, and prioritization skills.

About the job

The Education team's mission is to transform learning and teaching at scale. We do this by helping K-12 and higher education institutions around the world bring the best of Google tools and technology to their organizations. We've made significant headway on this journey, with 170M+ Google Workspace for Education users and 150M+ Google Classroom users to date. With AI, the potential for technology to enhance education is greater than ever.

As a key member of the extended Education leadership team, you will help shape the cross-Google narrative for Google for Education (GfE). Reporting to the VP of Strategy, GTM & Operations, you will oversee a multi-disciplinary organization encompassing GTM and Business Strategy, Data Science, and Program Management teams. You will be responsible for translating GfE's high-level vision into a rigorous operational reality. You will drive long-range planning, facilitate high-stakes investment trade-offs, align on and drive measurement, and lead a multi-year overarching strategy and orchestrate the strategic roadmap required to scale Google's impact to 1 billion students globally.

In this role, you will have the defining opportunity to transform teaching and learning for students globally. By harnessing state-of-the-art learning science and the breakthrough capabilities being developed across Google, you will shape the future of education.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $310000 - $432000 (USD) + 40% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the VP to architect a cohesive strategy for Google Education. Oversee the scoping of highly ambiguous challenges, delivering forward-thinking approaches and solutions to unlock critical growth opportunities. 
  • Drive high-level alignment, engagement and decision-making across senior level stakeholders. 
  • Define the operational roadmap that translates high-level vision into execution. 
  • Drive end-to-end operational accuracy to ensure flawless execution to the highest priority goals. 
  • Leverage AI to drive innovation, productivity, and operational workflows 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.