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Silicon Strategy Lead, Pixel

Google

  • Mountain View, CA
  • 30+ days ago
  • Full-time
  • Employee
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Skills

  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Bridge Buildingunmatched
  • Business Administrationunmatched
  • Business Planunmatched
  • Business Skillsunmatched
  • Business Strategyunmatched
  • Cadenceunmatched
  • Civil Engineeringunmatched
  • Clean Technologiesunmatched
  • Competitive Analysis/Strategyunmatched
  • Computer Scienceunmatched
  • Consumer Electronicsunmatched
  • Cross-Functionalunmatched
  • Customer Experienceunmatched
  • Data Scienceunmatched
  • Electrical Engineeringunmatched
  • Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)unmatched
  • Financeunmatched
  • Financial Planningunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Management Consultingunmatched
  • Market Researchunmatched
  • Marketingunmatched
  • Marketing Strategyunmatched
  • Matrix Managementunmatched
  • Operational Strategyunmatched
  • Operations Planningunmatched
  • Product Developmentunmatched
  • Product Planningunmatched
  • Product Strategyunmatched
  • Profit & Loss Managementunmatched
  • Semiconductorsunmatched
  • Strategic Planningunmatched
  • Supply Chainunmatched
  • System-on-a-Chip (SoC)unmatched
  • Trend Analysisunmatched
  • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched

Description

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 11 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or product strategy, with a focus on the semiconductor, mobile, or consumer electronics sectors.
  • Experience in the silicon life cycle, from initial architecture and PPA (Power, Performance, Area) trade-offs to commercialization and lifecycle management.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree, MBA or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, specializing in SoC architecture or AI/ML, or a related field.
  • Experience influencing C-suite or VP-level decisions on multi-year investment roadmaps and product portfolios.
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity and drive consensus across massive, matrixed organizations (e.g., engineering, supply chain, finance, and marketing).
  • Strong business acumen, including profit and loss management, long-range financial planning, and the ability to link technical specifications to market-moving business outcomes.

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 (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), 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.

As the Silicon Strategy Lead on the Devices and Services Strategy Operations team, you will directly inform the roadmap and strategy for Tensor and Pixel overall. You will bridge the gap between engineering breakthroughs and the five-year Pixel portfolio outlook, ensuring our silicon investments directly enable Google’s AI-first consumer experiences. You will be responsible for navigating cross-functional alignment between Engineering, Finance, and Product teams (e.g., silicon, product, software). This role requires a unique blend of semiconductor industry depth and executive-level business acumen to transform complex technical capabilities into sustainable market advantages and exceptional hardware products.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $176000 - $257000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Lead effective application of market research, data science, market intelligence and strategic frameworks. Along with analysis and recommendation, this role involves achieving alignment on direction across cross-functional teams.
  • Lead the long-range strategic planning for Tensor, aligning silicon capabilities with the 5-year Pixel portfolio and Google’s broader AI roadmap.
  • Inform how silicon empowers the AI, software and hardware stack, focused on powering next-gen experiences across Gemini and our NTI pillars (e.g., camera/imaging tech). Being a bridge between the silicon and software teams.
  • Drive the build versus buy frameworks and investment trade-offs that determine the future of our 1P silicon footprint.
  • Partner deeply with Engineering, Finance, and Product leads to connect Devices and Services Product Group (DSPG) opportunities with potentially broader Google category landings for Tensor.
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.

Numbers & Facts

LocationMountain View, CA
Job TypeFull-time, Employee
IndustryComputer Software
Company Size10,000 employees or more
Year Founded1998
Websitehttps://goo.gle/4dbno6V

Benefits

Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria

About Company

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

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