Partner Manager, Google Play Retail and Payments Activation

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Business Administration or a related field.
• Experience in brand/retail category management, retail business, gift card segment, payments or digital content.
• Experience in managing data sets and working with Salesforce, SQL queries, Visual Basic, Google Apps Script, BigQuery.
• Knowledge of the payment landscape in India with digital content consumption and the mobile gaming industry.
• Ability to engage with cross-functional leadership and communicate across a changing team.
• Ability to analyze and synthesize performance data and drive towards insights.

Responsibilities

• Assess and evaluate the payment landscape in India and propose/identify opportunities to increase payment adoption, drive consumer spend and new paying users. Manage partnerships to drive business growth (e.g., gift card/recharge codes) in payment partner channels, including physical and digital retailers.
• Build and execute against go to market strategies for new product launches including implementing promotional strategies, analyzing data across merchants, product, promotion type and other variables to optimize performance, and identify and present back on new payment trends.
• Identify and implement solutions to streamline reporting processes, prepare and stage data for planning, and perform analysis to deliver data-motivated recommendations.
• Partner cross-functionally across marketing, business operations to execute against cross-functional plans including amplifying major developer moments, major Play moments, launching new Play products.

About the job

In this role, you will work with retailers, distribution and payment partners to continue to build Google Play’s gift card/recharge code and emerging payments businesses. You will work not just with external partners, but also across with the Play cross-functional teams in-country and within the region. You will balance multiple priorities, develop, and execute marketing plans, work with internal and external partners, and analyze data to inform decisions. You will engage with stakeholders, providing essential analysis for planning, decision-making, and performance management. You will require investigative skills, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to communicate across all levels of the business.Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.