Program Manager, Go-to-market Launch Readiness

**Minimum qualifications**:- 8 years of experience in program management, management consulting, corporate strategy, business operations or planning.- Experience with product life-cycle management across product and Go-to-Market functions.- Experience with program and stakeholder management in a cross-functional capacity.**Preferred qualifications**:- Experience leading complex operational and strategic cross-functional initiatives.- Knowledge of enterprise customers and cloud technologies, products and market landscape.- Ability to navigate and influence within a complex business environment.- Ability to communicate in English fluently as this is a customer-facing role that requires interactions in English with local and regional stakeholders.- Excellent project management, problem-solving, and investigative skills.- Excellent business acumen and communication skills.**About the job**:A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.The Google Cloud Go-to-Market (GTM) Launch Readiness team mitigates launch risk by consulting, coaching and managing the GTM readiness framework. We engage the right GTM cross-functional teams for the right launches at the right time. We pull only the right GTM cross-functional teams with enough lead time and context to perform their functions effectively.We ensure the promoters and partners are ready to promote the capabilities of this new launch. We reduce friction and build a cohesive narrative of all launches and that the right information is provided and ensure that Google Cloud products and solutions are ready to be consumed and purchased.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.**Responsibilities**:- Refine GTM Cloud-wide strategy for New Product Introductions, New Service Introductions and other change management initiatives in collaboration with Global Business Operations, Business Strategy, Sales Enablement and Activation and Cloud's Sales leadership team.- Coordinate and ensure clear GTM coverage and execution plans in place for product, horizontal and vertical solution launch and life-cycle management initiatives.- Deliver thought leadership, reports, insights and recommendations around GTM best practices.- Conduct triage/discovery calls with product and solution managers to assess the right level of GTM engagement.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.