Localization Product Strategist

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of project/program management experience working across teams.

• Experience working internationally or in other languages and with localization operations and strategy, localization program management, or in internationalization.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and global environment with proven success in project management, execution and multitasking.
• Ability to present to executive decision-makers in a clear and compelling manner.
• Ability to craft a solution to meet stakeholder and user needs leveraging existing menu of services or new technologies.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and communicate with multiple stakeholders at all levels of management.
• Passion for Google products and users.

In gTech Users and Products (gUP), our mission is to advocate for Googles users by creating helpful and trusted experiences across the product ecosystem. We achieve this by meeting partners and consumers where they are with support and help, representing their needs with our product partners and proposing fixes and features that elevate their engagement with Googles diverse product ecosystem. Additionally we provide a range of product services that ensure our products are optimized for every user, no matter where they are in the world (e.g., localization, digitization, partner integration, and more).

The Localization team helps Googles ideas and products look, feel, and sound natural to users in their own countries. We collaborate with international teams to steer products through the localization process and ensure successful launches across the globe.

In this role, youll play a strategic role by building relationships with cross-functional partner teams to establish needs, deadlines, budgets, and product expansion globally. You will ensure that our localization process runs effectively and efficiently, and ensure Googles ideas and products look, feel, and sound natural to users across the globe. Whether youre on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Android, Play, YouTube) or a business product (AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, Analytics), you are in charge of driving the end-to-end localization process to ensure successful launches globally. Your projects often span offices, time zones and hemispheres, and its your role to keep all the players coordinated on project progress and deadlines.

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTechs role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

To learn more about gTech, check out our video.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $110,000-$157,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

• Support the localization of one or several Google products from inception to launch, managing delivery, cost and quality of projects and overseeing vendor execution.
• Work with product teams, educating and advising on their products localization journey whilst representing the global user voice. Understand top business needs related to a products localization and local insights needs.
• Be accountable, in partnership with the Portfolio Lead, for the products localization budget.
• Understand localization workflows and services, identify tool and process needs to enable operational scaling, collaborate with Operations and Engineering to support deployment, with guidance from the Portfolio Lead.
• Partner with the Portfolio Lead to build compelling cases for new business opportunities, develop insightful recommendations, and drive development and implementation.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of project/program management experience working across teams.