Business operations and development
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.
Department descriptions
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- Business operations and strategy
- Corporate development
- Google Ventures
- New business development
- Strategic partnerships
Business operations and strategy
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.
Corporate development
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.
Google Ventures
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.
New business development
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.
Strategic partnerships
Content partnerships
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and our growing Content Partnerships team helps to provide access to all of the world’s content. Through content partnerships and programs, we support Google.com, YouTube, Google Book Search, Google Maps, Google Earth and over 20 Google products/properties around the world. The breadth and scope of content we acquire almost defies description. It includes video, books, publications, mapping data, satellite and aerial imagery, business addresses, restaurant reviews, retail product inventories, real-estate listings and government data.
Search services and distribution partnerships
Google’s Search Services and Distribution team plays a critical role in ensuring the continued growth of our company as well as that of our many partners. In fact, we drive a substantial portion of Google’s revenue by making the company’s core consumer products available to our partners. We collaborate with a variety of internal business departments, prospecting and negotiating new partnership deals, or managing, growing and enhancing our existing ones. Our mission is to consistently meet our partners' Internet software and service needs by creatively and strategically leveraging Google’s innovative search, applications, advertising, and media platforms.