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Chief of Staff, Search+

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Compensation
$186–269K/yr
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Chief of Staff serves as the operational engine for Google’s Search+ leadership team, connecting strategic business operations, cross-functional alignment, and organizational culture and health. The role manages business cadences, headcount and operating expenses, annual planning and OKRs, and high-stakes escalations. It supports the Global Product Solutions Strategy and Operations team in driving strategic initiatives and keeping leadership focused on high-leverage priorities.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Annual PlanningOpex BudgetingHeadcount AllocationDigital AdvertisingGo-to-Market StrategyProduct CommercializationExecutive CommunicationStrategic WritingPresentation DesignProblem SolvingData AnalysisResource Modeling

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience8 Years Management Consulting, Sales Operations, Business Strategy or Corporate Advisory ExperienceMaster's Degree or MBA

Full job description

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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or MBA.

  • Experience managing annual planning, opex budgeting, and headcount allocation models.

  • Knowledge of digital advertising, go-to-market motions, and product-commercialization lifecycles.

  • Ability to communicate complex, ambiguous topics clearly and persuasively to executive leadership (VP+).

  • Exceptional strategic writing and presentation design capabilities (adept at drafting strategy memos and C-level presentations).

  • Strong problem-solving acumen, comfortable navigating complex datasets to pull business insights and model resource/budget needs.

About the job

The Global Product Solutions Strategy and Operations (GPS StratOps) team partners closely with each Global Product Solutions (GPS) leadership team and the regional GTM teams to drive strategic initiatives end-to-end for GBO. The team's job to be done ranges from running point on the GPS annual strategy planning process, defining and aligning Product Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) metrics to steer the Ads business with, prepping product-specfic Business Forecast Meeting (BFM) executive reviews with Google's Chief Business Officer and product-specific Steering Committee (SteerCo) reviews with cross-functional business and product leaders, and one-off, product-centric strategy projects to drive high-impact outcomes in service of product positioning and activation.

The Chief of Staff (CoS) serves as the operational engine for the Search+ leadership team. The role bridges strategic business operations, cross-functional alignment, and organizational culture and health.

The position ensures the leadership team remains focused on high-leverage priorities by managing business cadences, stewarding headcount and operating expenses, driving annual planning and OKRs, and resolving ambiguous, high-stakes escalations.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $186000 - $269000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Drive annual/quarterly planning cycles, timeline creation, and communication. Coordinate cross-functional deliverables, aligning workstreams with GTM priorities to define, track, and grade OKRs while triaging executive requests to streamline decision-making cycles and leadership focus.

  • Partner with Finance and HR to manage headcount allocation, identifying efficiencies to optimize resource distribution.

  • Structure and run leadership meetings, roundtables, and offsites. Manage agendas, pre-reads, decision logs, and action items.

  • Author organization-wide communications and all-hands decks, serving as the central hub for strategic information.

  • Collaborate with HR to drive engagement initiatives leveraging survey insights, lead cross-organization programs (including the AI Pillar), and solve complex, ad-hoc operational challenges.

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How this job compares

Set against the 622 open Chief of Staff jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$186–269K/yr
  • California median$153–221K/yr134 salary ranges
  • US median$143–210K/yr476 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $228K, is 23% above the California median midpoint ($185K) — in the middle half of Chief of Staff salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 169 open Chief of Staff jobs in California and 622 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Chief of Staff postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (524 postings).
Education
143 of the 622 open Chief of Staff jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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