Strategic Consultant, AI Led Innovation

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Gurugram, Haryana, India; Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in management/technology consulting, or equivalent experience in a solutions architect or transformation role.
• Experience in designing, architecting, and implementing AI, Generative AI, or intelligent automation solutions.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Certification in Project Management Professional (PMP) or Lean Six Sigma.
• Experience in negotiating and drafting complex commercial agreements that include technology, data governance, and intellectual property terms.
• Experience in vendor management, procurement, legal operations, or extended workforce strategy.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and build consensus among executive cross-functional stakeholders.

About The Job
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Strategic Consultant, you will be the internal thought leader driving our strategy across the entire Global Vendor Strategy and Solutions (VMO) organization. You will act as a strategic consultant and solutions architect for all business functions supported by the VMO, including Engineering, Sales, and Marketing, to identify, design, and implement Generative AI and intelligent automation opportunities within the extended workforce ecosystem.

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

• Be the thought leader and strategic owner for our organization's AI adoption roadmap, defining the future state of the VMO operating model and its impact on the extended workforce.
• Engage with executive stakeholders across Sales, Engineering, Marketing, to find, quantify, and prioritize AI-first opportunities for their vendor-supported functions.
• Define the strategy, governance, and operating model for the AI Data Operations ensuring ethical, compliant, and cost-effective utilization of human labor to train, test, and augment AI/ML models.
• Advocate the development of commercial and negotiating standards that explicitly address AI requirements.
• Prepare and deliver strategic reviews and proposals to executive leadership, articulating the financial, operational, and engaged advantages of AI-driven vendor transformation.

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 .