Regional Product Lead, Media Effectiveness, Mid Market Sales (English, Japanese)

Google welcomes people with disabilities.Minimum qualifications:Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.4 years of experience in product management, marketing, management consulting, or project management in technology.Experience working with Product Management or Engineering teams, executive leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders.Experience in developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.Ability to communicate in English and Japanese fluently to support client relationship management in this region.Preferred qualifications:Experience influencing executives, managers, and sellers in 1-1 and 1-many formats.Experience influencing stakeholders to devise and scale a strategy.Ability to understand and adapt to the motivations of different stakeholder groups.Ability to take complex, ambiguous topics and present them in a clear and concise manner to stakeholders.Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional boundaries.Excellent written, verbal, presentation, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.About The JobAt Google, product is at the core of the company. Our group, called PSA (Product and Sales Activation), brings products to market, and market to products. We sit at the junction of product, strategy, and go-to-market to shape the long term product roadmap, best commercialize new products, and drive long term strategic initiatives (e.g. impact of machine learning on partners). We work across the Google product portfolio (e.g. YouTube, Search, etc.). Today, Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing advertising region in the world and digital advertising will continue to fuel much of that growth going forward. Within this exciting environment, it’s the team’s responsibility to influence everyone advertisers, partners and the colleagues about what Google can provide to make advertisers more successful and ensure that happens.In this role, your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and investigative abilities shapes how new and existing businesses grow. Using your influencing and relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis. You anticipate how decisions are made, explore and uncover the business needs of Google's key clients and understand how the range of product offerings can grow their business. Working with them, you set the goal and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users.Google Customer Solutions (GCS) sales teams are trusted advisors and competitive sellers who maintain a relentless focus on customer success by bringing the best Google has to offer to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which are the backbone of our communities. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to work with company owners and make a real difference in their businesses by helping them grow. Together, we help shape the future of innovation for customers, partners, and sellers...and we have fun doing it.ResponsibilitiesConsult with sellers and customers to identify business growth opportunities, advise on marketing analytics, measurement, and attribution methodologies to develop holistic solutions.Interpret, analyze, and contextualize the results of Google's measurement solutions (e.g., incrementality studies) to demonstrate Google's impact to customers.Identify and build knowledge of measurement solutions used by customers and agencies to develop Google’s strategic positioning in the market.Innovate with product teams to unlock cross-functional opportunities and partner with Global PSA to define and evolve the client maturity curve.Partner with sales teams to effectively position Google's results against client objectives and drive conversations about growth. Collaborate with Sales and Global PSA to identify key challenges, develop scalable solutions, and create trainings to drive seller knowledge.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 .