Web Ecosystem Consultant

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Candidates will typically have 3 years of experience working with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP).
• Typically 3 years of experience coding with one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python).
• Experience in technical troubleshooting, and managing internal/external partners or customers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with industry advertising solutions, including targeting, re-marketing, measurement and reporting, and/or experience working with the ad tech ecosystem.
• Experience writing detailed technical documentation.
• Knowledge of the major tools and technologies (front and back-end) used and the challenges facing web developers.
• Ability to distill disparate observations into structured insights/feedback and trend reports.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent technical writing skills.

About the job

At gTech’s Users and Products team (gUP), our mission is to help users get the most out of Google. We represent Google's users and many of our partners globally, sharing insights with the larger Google organization to enable exceptional customer and product experiences.

gUP builds innovative solutions that take user experience and engagement with Google to the next level, supporting users across products, countries, cultures, incomes, and identities. We advocate for users through partnerships with product areas at Google (and some Alphabet businesses), supporting Google’s consumer products ecosystem and enabling numerous launches for Google’s consumer products each year.

The Web Ecosystem Consulting team works with Partners, Product and Engineering teams to improve the quality and foster the creation of web experiences, make the web a compelling platform for end users, and ensure the web remains a commercially viable ecosystem. We aim to do this by working across partners and strategic creators on a one-on-one basis, consulting on product integrations of both Google and third-party site dependencies or services, in order to scale learnings across Platforms, Frameworks, and Content Management Systems with broader reach. Cross-functionally, we work with many teams such as Web Platform, Chrome, Search Ecosystems, and Global Product Partnerships on priority initiatives such as Web Privacy, Core Web Vitals, Modern Web Formats, Advanced Apps, and other topics.

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

Responsibilities

• Help prepare the web and ad-tech ecosystems for major changes in Chrome, to improve privacy on the web and the planned third-party cookie deprecation.
• Drive early testing and adoption of Privacy Sandbox APIs while collecting, synthesizing, and sharing early partner feedback with Chrome product and engineering teams.
• Provide technical and consultative support to strategic organizations to help them prepare, implement, test, and migrate to new Privacy Sandbox APIs while satisfying their business needs.
• Understand and represent the various interests and needs of a diverse set of partners, platforms, and ad-tech verticals (e.g., News, Commerce, CMS, CDNs).
• Act as a bridge between technical and business stakeholders.