The Business Operations and Development group is responsible for growing the company through strategic partnerships, new initiatives, and developing products. We work cross functionally with different teams to develop new products, make effective and sound investments, and negotiate business deals.
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The Business and Operations Strategy team thinks strategically and globally about entire industries and helps Google define business and operational initiatives that contribute to the company’s growth. Our team of highly creative visionaries thrives in deconstructing and re-creating businesses to meet changing strategic and operational needs, enable innovation, establish more efficient business practices, and help the company continue to achieve its vast potential. Our work includes such projects as developing and implementing next-generation advertising products, defining strategies to optimize data center technology and operations, and establishing business initiatives for emerging markets. We measure our effectiveness by monitoring the concrete impact we have on revenue, cost, and operational efficiency.
In Corporate Development, we focus on Google’s worldwide growth by determining appropriate acquisitions and investments – and then executing and integrating them. Our teams consist of experienced merger-and-acquisition leaders and deal integrators dedicated to identifying, acquiring, and integrating Google’s products of tomorrow.
The Google Ventures team seeks to discover and grow great companies. We study a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. Google Ventures invests anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage and embraces the challenge of helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance. Our team includes entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators, along with over 20,000 exceptional Googlers whose breadth of knowledge, experience, and creativity constitute our most valuable resource. You don't have to be a potential Google acquisition for us to work with you; we're out to build great companies, period.
The New Business Development group works with Product, Engineering, and other teams on new product incubation and exploratory efforts, technology and meta-data licensing, strategic partnerships, urgent special projects, and alternative distribution for existing and new business initiatives. Our team consists of creative, entrepreneurial, highly organized leaders, well versed in a broad range of technologies, who can spot opportunities, evaluate inbound inquiries, build partnerships, collaborate with many internal functional groups globally, and negotiate and close business deals.