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Google Merchandising Specialist, Third Party Retail, Devices and Services in San Francisco, California
This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
3 years of experience in marketing.
3 years of experience with a retail marketing agency or in retail production.
3 years of experience in retail marketing within a corporate or agency environment.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience developing and implementing merchandising strategies that drive consideration and conversion.
Experience in consumer electronics or working with mass or club retailers across in-store executions.
Excellent organization and project management skills, with ability to take initiative.
Excellent creative judgment and skill designing visual merchandising elements and in-store display executions.
Excellent relationship building, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Whether you're on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Chrome, Android) or a business product (Google Ads, AdSense, Google Marketing Platform, Analytics), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product's journey. From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization and external communications, you help shape the representation of the product and help it grow a consumer base. This means you work with a cross-functional team across Sales, corporate communications, legal, webmasters, product development, engineering and more. In this role, you'll be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.
Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $91,000-$134,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) .
Assist in developing and executing compelling in-store merchandising plans for new products and seasonal placements that increase brand visibility and drive business within retail partner stores, under guidance from manager.
Contribute to a comprehensive work-back schedule, ensuring all key milestones across creative, approvals, and deployment are met in partnership with cross-functional teams, escalating complex challenges to manager.
Educate cross-functional teams on competitive landscape, using insights to drive future merchandising strategies. Foster positive partnerships with retailers, ensuring in-store experience aligns with business and product development.
Manage creative development to support merchandising projects, authoring briefs and working with agencies and internal design teams to align with brand guidelines.
Support management of merchandising budgets, purchase orders, and measure effectiveness of executions. Identify efficiencies and insights for internal stakeholders and leverage existing production relationships to improve execution.
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