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Beta Development Lead, GTM

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Compensation
$152–221K/yr
Location
Chicago, IL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Beta Development Lead works within Google’s Go-to-Market Product Strategy and Operations group, partnering with product and technical teams to test alpha and beta products with major advertisers. The role manages product pilots, evaluates market fit, adoption, and performance, and provides recommendations to inform product roadmaps and commercialization decisions.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Management ConsultingSales OperationsBusiness StrategyCorporate AdvisoryGoogle Ads ProductsAmbiguity ManagementTeamworkStakeholder ManagementInfluenceWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationNarrative CraftingPresentation Skills

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience6 Years Relevant ExperienceMBAEnglish Proficiency

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

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

Preferred qualifications:

  • MBA.

  • Experience working with Google Ads products.

  • Comfortable with ambiguity, and with the ability to grow in a team environment.

  • Excellent cross-functional stakeholder management and ability to influence without authority.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in crafting effective narratives and compelling presentations.

About the job

BetaDev is a specialist group within Go-to-Market (GTM) Product Strategy and Operations. We partner with Global Product Leads (GPS), Product Managers, and gTech to test the newest alpha and beta products with Google’s largest advertisers (LCS).The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Responsibilities

  • Manage project scoping, execution, and feedback synthesis for multiple product pilots quarterly. Proactively flag and remove execution blockers, pivot strategies based on real market signals, and remain unbiased in assessing readiness.

  • Partner with cross-functional teams to define test hypotheses and evaluation criteria, and align on overall testing approach. Communicate progress/status updates via weekly comms, weekly meetings, etc., with key stakeholders.

  • Assess new products against Market Fit, Adoption, and Performance metrics, augmented by customer pitch calls, interviews, surveys, and lessons learned during product troubleshooting. Deliver a final analysis to product decision makers to help inform next-stage incubation and commercialization decisions.

  • Provide go/no-go recommendations backed by rich insights to help shape product roadmaps based on customer needs.

  • Define successful launch requirements, hold partner teams accountable, and continuously improve operations using deep market expertise.

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How this job compares

Set against the 536 open Product Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$152–221K/yr
  • US median$123–179K/yr465 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $187K, is 24% above the US median midpoint ($150K) — in the top quarter of Product Operations salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 536 open Product Operations jobs across the US. 13% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Product Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (475 postings).
Education
79 of the 536 open Product Operations jobs (15%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 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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