Product Operations, Privacy And Security (Xico)

About the Job

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google's functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines. Our roles often include components of strategy, operations, and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross‑cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

Privacy, Safety, and Security (PSS) coordinates privacy and security initiatives across Product Area (PA) and functions to help Alphabet maintain its user‑first focus, invest in constructive relationships with regulators and key opinion formers worldwide, and ensure that ongoing strategy work is conducted with transparency and accountability.

In this role, you will have a unique opportunity to work cross‑functionally with product, engineering, legal, and others to build products that simultaneously grow and protect our users and communities. Our work occurs at the intersection of product engineering, privacy and security management, and user respect.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of vendor relationships, including access control, onboarding, agreement management, and financial management.
• Coordinate with full‑time employees on escalations, resourcing, vendor portfolio management, project allocation, and onboarding of new projects.
• Headcount for PSS's entire organization, research headcount requests, and responsible for carrying out the headcount strategy.
• Lead initiatives such as Return of Investment analysis and execution, in partnership with vendors.
• Analyze workforce data, identify trends, and develop data‑driven solutions to processes and support decision‑making. Automate and streamline workflows, manage data hygiene, and develop reporting tools.

Qualifications

Must have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
• Experience working with and analyzing data.
• Managing multiple projects.

Good to have

• Ability to take initiative and drive tasks to completion.
• Ability to adapt and innovate, challenge the status quo, and identify new solutions while effectively balancing risk, speed, and cost.
• Excellent relationship‑building skills, with experience navigating organizational structures and collaborating effectively with diverse teams and executive stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to analyze and convey complex information clearly.
• Excellent problem‑solving and thinking skills, with the ability to develop creative solutions.