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Business Innovator

Google X· Business Innovation
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Mountain View, CA$180k - $280kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior role within X's Business Innovation team, embedded with cross-disciplinary moonshot projects to accelerate and de-risk moonshots from early stages to investable ventures through market validation, business modeling, and partnerships.

Responsibilities

  • Lead market, business, product and partnerships strategy for specific moonshot projects including diving into exciting experiments and shaping key strategic initiatives
  • Roll up your sleeves on projects as an embedded Business Innovation team member with radical collaboration to accelerate our moonshots
  • Apply first principles systems thinking with the ability to set hypotheses and test them in the market with stakeholders and partners to progressively de-risk moonshot projects from a business perspective
  • As ‘player-coaches’, show up as critical thought partners and co-builders with our project leads
  • Support the investment readiness process for internal ventures preparing to graduate
  • Leverage our convening power and resources at X and Alphabet in your pursuit of accelerating moonshots

Qualifications

  • 10 years of professional business experience with a significant focus on deep tech either through entrepreneurship, investing, management consulting or operating in a technical industry
  • Growth mindset with a strong propensity to learn and innovate through proactive problem, market, customer discovery
  • Deep analytical rigour, including demonstrable expertise with financial modelling for market, business and product development strategy
  • Market discovery and analysis including stakeholder/expert interviews
  • Product marketing analysis (e.g. identifying and translating current unmet needs to moonshot product requirements, identifying target customer/user segments, revenue models and pricing)
  • Go-to-market strategy and sequencing
  • Business financial modeling (e.g. market sizing, unit economics, pro forma P&Ls)
  • Ability to create significant strategic partnerships around early stage technology or ventures including sourcing, building alignment and closing strategic partnerships
  • Strong understanding of deep tech, emerging technologies, and the unique challenges of commercializing research and early technology innovations
  • Exceptional project management with a track record of successful, end-to-end project or deal execution, or entrepreneurial venture-building
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills including ability to effectively communicate both technical and non-technical information to mixed audiences
  • Ability to work effectively, lead through influence, and build strong relationships in a fast-paced, dynamic, and ambiguous environment

Skills

Required:Market and opportunity discoveryProduct marketing and requirements translationGo-to-market strategyFinancial modelingStrategic partnershipsCommunication and interpersonal skillsProject managementInfluence and relationship building

Benefits

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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