OPEN ROLES: Product Marketing Manager & Coordinator, University Programs

Dear Google,

Obviously I cannot work there unless I knew what I wanted from you!

Two roles that I am interested in are as of now:
1. Product Marketing Manager

Responsibilities

• Create a beautiful and helpful user experience for our small business customers all across the Americas.
• Collaborate with Creative, Sales, Engineering, and media teams to take ideas from conception to realization.
• Provide global leadership and creative vision for the development and implementation of flawless advertising campaigns.
• Translate internal product strategies into user-friendly, benefit-driven stories.
• Manage the full campaign development process, including: agency management; customer research; strategy and brief development; creative development; production; media planning; and media buying.

Minimum qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of progressive experience.

Preferred qualifications

• 3 years of experience at a world-class digital agency leading creative for iconic global brands with an emphasis on business to business.
• Proven experience in the technology category and ability to make sophisticated technology accessible and understandable to a wide audience.
• Distinctive problem solving and analytical skills, and impeccable business judgment.
• Ability to demonstrate measurable impact of campaign strategy.
• Ability to thrive in a rapid paced environment on multiple projects in a scrappy, start-up atmosphere.
• Ability to effectively communicate and lead projects from concept to completion and lead, manage, and motivate virtual teams and outside agencies.

2. Coordinator, University Programs

Responsibilities

• Assist specialists and managers in the development of various outreach programs.
• Coordinate event logistics: e.g. hotel and travel arrangements, meeting room and catering reservations, speaker confirmation, ordering of marketing materials, preparation of campus visit packets, payment processes, etc.
• Schedule on-campus interview sessions and prepare candidate packets.
• Participate in the development and execution of communication and engagement strategies to ensure a long-term candidate cultivation.
• Serve as the onsite liaison for the Pittsburgh office and surrounding universities which includes providing real-time event support when necessary.

Minimum qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program/event management, recruiting, HR, university relations, or related area.

Preferred qualifications

• Proven ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, take initiative, work with a high sense of urgency, pay close attention to detail and build strong, productive relationships with colleagues and clients at all organizational levels.
• Ability to consistently and positively contribute in a high-paced, changing work environment with the ability to prioritize multiple functions and tasks and manage time efficiently.
• Affinity to technology, including familiarity with office productivity tools, web based recruiting technologies and Google Apps.
• Highly motivated professional with demonstrated program/project management and problem solving with a strong mindset for continuous improvement and using data to influence decision-making.
• Exceptional customer service and verbal/written communication skills with an emphasis on tact, diplomacy and producing quality results.

Self Reflection: From what I can tell, I actually am interested in both position but am probably more qualified for the second position. I am definitely minimally qualified, and preferably mainly qualified. I guess I’ll apply first and see where that takes me!

1. First attempt 6/9/2015- applied.
2. Administrative Business Partner, Display Ads – New York- because I have administrative skills and I’m very detail oriented too. 6/9/2015- applied.

Will update as the days go by!
-The Wannabe Noogler

Google’s Mission Statement

Dear Google,

Today I am here to tell you that I love your mission statement.

Your mission statement is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful..Since Google was founded in 1998, [they’ve] grown to serve millions of people around the world.” –https://www.google.com/about/company

I love your mission statement for several reasons. This world is round but getting ‘flatter’ by the day. Thanks to many things including Google. Why?

1. With technology at all of our finger tips, I can talk to hundreds to billions of people every second, of every day! This means how I feel here in America can easily be heard or read in France, Thailand, and India all at once. If I want to change the world, using this #wordpress platform to blog and have it appear on #Google #searchengine it IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE. The transportation of information is a billion times faster than it ever was (i.e. in the 90s and earlier). I’m no longer worried about important information via a letter getting lost in the mail, or a telephone call not going through.
2. It is organized. The one thing I absolutely abhor is a bunch of information in a pile without reasoning or knowledge of what it means. It’s the same thing as throwing everything in a closet from K-12th grade and expecting to know what everything is without labels when you become 25-30 years old and trying to clean things out. Google in a sense, “cleans things out” on the daily and so it makes life just so much better in the long run! Thanks to its #algorithms and employers who #filter #searchedwords or information in general, with the most relevant on top, with the Google #searchbar, people learn and find things faster than ever before! Now if only we could add a search bar to our closet…
3. Your name is Google. That is SO nerdy, and I like it. If I could embody perfection and be any superhero for a week, the person I would be is, a fashionable geek! (For those of you who do not know, Google was named after the word ‘googol’ or a mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros AKA 10¹⁰⁰. Fun fact: t it was coined by a 9 year old boy named Milton Sirotta who was the nephew of prominent mathematician Edward Kasner. Not only was Kasner the “first Jewish appointed to a faculty position in the sciences at Columbia University,” known for introducing googol, the Kasner metric, and the Kasner polygon, but a personal fun fact for me is that he was born in New York City! This is where I am from and it motivates me to do as great of things as people like him).

Google, your mission statement is simple and yet useful beyond comprehension. I cannot wait to embody this image full time. Cannot wait to embody this for ya’all!

-The Wannabe Noogler