Vendor Operations Manager, Content Service Delivery

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in operations or business management, and vendor management.
• 2 years of experience using analytics or applying project management tools to address business issues.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with dashboards and data.
• Ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities and stakeholder issues/requirements, driving decisions/actions to deliver continuous improvement across operations.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in a fluid environement.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work and influence across multiple levels of the organization and regions.

About The Job

Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you’re a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed – with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.

As the Trust & Safety Vendor Operations Manager, you will be responsible for driving operational excellence and delivering world-class vendor operations. You will lead the day-to-day vendor operations and effectively manage vendor performance with transparent metrics, data-driven decisions and industry leading vendor management techniques.

You will be responsible for managing and delivering Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for your workflows. You are an expert in operational excellence who possesses the ability to work globally and cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders. You are also capable of identifying, prioritizing and implementing process and automation opportunities to continuously improve and scale operations.

At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust & Safety is Google’s team of abuse fighting and user trust experts working daily to make the internet a safer place. We partner with teams across Google to deliver bold solutions in abuse areas such as malware, spam and account hijacking. A diverse team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers, we work to reduce risk and fight abuse across all of Google’s products, protecting our users, advertisers, and publishers across the globe in over 40 languages.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a large vendor network distributed across different suppliers and sites. Own and manage the relationships with suppliers and internal teams to ensure high-quality output and successful outcomes. Responsible for Service Level Agreement (SLA) delivery at the program level.
• Evaluate vendor performance against key metrics and SLAs. Address performance issues and collaborate with vendors to implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders internally and externally to Trust & Safety (T&S) across Product, Policy and Engineering teams to drive projects, set up new teams/workflows, and also share insights to improve the overall quality of our vendor operations and make our products safer.
• Identify process, tools, data and metrics improvements, and partner with Product, Tools, Analytics and Process Excellence teams to address gaps, solve operational challenges, and increase work efficiency and quality (e.g., capacity utilization, automation).

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .