Career Development Strategist

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

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In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Washington D.C., DC, USA; Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA . Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in consulting, product management, or HR.
• Experience translating user insights into product requirements or digital solutions.
• Experience in managing products or projects from ideation to implementation, tracking and reporting out on metrics.

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years of experience working as a manager.
• Experience building AI-powered tools for employees or consumers.
• Expertise in career development frameworks and psychometrics.
• Knowledge of applying AI to product development.
• Ability to influence as a part of cross-functional teams, effectively managing competing priorities and ensuring alignment.
• Ability to adapt to pivoting strategies and requirements based on user insights and rapidly evolving technical capabilities.

About The Job

People Operations strives to revolutionize human resources the same way that Google has revolutionized search. We are helping to find, grow and keep the remarkable assemblage of talent who are our Googlers. You'll be an advocate of Google's culture and values, partnering with our business leaders to help them build their organizations and make sure all people decisions are based on data. Whether coaching our clients on how to lead their teams, navigating and resolving employee relations issues or managing programs that help develop our Googlers, you are exceptionally focused on putting them first, and being as clear and transparent as possible to help Googlers understand how people decisions get made.

People Operations (POps) products will deliver talent and career solutions for Googlers, managers and leaders, equipping Google to lead in the AI era and beyond. Our ability to deliver career development Critical User Journeys (CUJs), attract talent, tap into organizational agility and have a total talent view are paramount to building an extraordinary mission-first Google.

As a Career Development Strategist, you will be critical to driving the next evolution of the career development platform from Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to true product-market fit. You will own driving the business requirements for hyper personalization and complex user journeys, like managers and leaders. Working at the intersection of People Strategy, Product, and UX, you will shape and deliver deeply personalized functionality to ensure our solutions are helpful to a wide range of users.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $165,000-$245,000 + 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 .

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize opportunities to make the career development solution optimally helpful to Googlers across a wide range of individual career journeys.
• Define the strategy and business requirements for AI-powered career development personalization, including for users in a manager or leader role.
• Translate ambiguous user needs and high-level strategy into concrete business requirements, functional specifications, and user journey maps.
• Foster strong partnerships across the POps ecosystem and product management, UX, and engineering partners.
• Serve as a trusted spokesperson for the product, including supporting product demonstrations to key stakeholders and users.

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 .