
Carol S.
5.0
Studied at NYU Stern School of Business

Worked at Google
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About Carol
With over 20 years of experience at top-tier companies like Google, Facebook, and Goldman Sachs, my experience includes: * Interviewing 60+ candidates at Google, giving me unique insights into what hiring managers look for. * Reviewing 40+ promotion packets and annual reviews, providing me with a deep understanding of performance evaluation criteria. * Writing 30+ performance reviews and promotion recommendations, allowing me to craft compelling narratives that highlight individual strengths and contributions. * Speaking on career development panels about coaching your team in their careers, building your network and supporters, and leading several employee resource groups or cohorts focused on career and skill development. I've skill sets in strategy & operations, chief of staff, risk management, and data governance. I've personally guided 10+ direct reports and 30+ mentees / coachees in navigating their career paths, empowering them to achieve their professional aspirations, from being the first in their family to attend college to landing their dream roles and securing well-deserved promotions.
Why do I coach?
I'm passionate about leveraging my own career journey, which includes numerous successful pivots, to help others unlock their full potential. I want to equip others with skills and frameworks to enable them to succeed. I wish I had coaching when I was earlier in my career and this is one way I can give back!
Work Experience

Head of Operations
January 2022 - December 2024
Hiring Manager
Manage team of program management, strategy, and engineering leads. Oversee 200 person org rhythm of business, resource management, OKRs, sales tools incubator, customer data privacy, internal access.

Governance Manager
November 2020 - January 2022
Drove team OKR setting & tracking, vision, scope, plan. Revamped operating model and staffing of vendor team to double utilization rate and increase efficiency. Enabled and equipped sellers & support roles to understand & apply data sharing policies, scale knowledge through dedicated POCs, trainings, content. Led committees to create & modify policies for consistency across multiple product areas and orgs.
Head Of Data Protection
September 2018 - November 2020
Started program for ensuring internal infrastructure, tools, processes keep advertiser and user data safe, secure, and private. Created and designed privacy and security controls with engineers, product managers, UI/UX designers. Led development of measurement and metrics with data engineers to visualize progress of data protection program. Created technical, business requirements and roadmap for infrastructure security framework.

Risk Manager
May 2012 - September 2018
Hiring Manager
Business & financial risk manager across Alphabet & Google: X, Street View, Cloud, Finance, Hardware, Motorola, YouTube, Nest. People manager: Built and hired a team of FTEs, defined team vision and mission, coached junior contributors into product area leads to address demand of growing hardware and product areas. Managed cross-functional engineering and support teams to build purchasing path, systems on Motorola and Play stores.

Treasury Analyst
September 2010 - May 2012
Created intake process for business risk assessments for all Google product and operational areas. Created project plans, cost benefit analyses, dashboards, and presentations for executive audiences.

Associate / Senior Associate
Goldman Sachs
January 2009 - August 2010
Advised deal teams and acquisition review committee on mitigating risk associated with financing and loan transactions. Performed business unit P&L analysis and presented performance drivers and opportunities for improvement to executive management.

Analyst
Goldman Sachs
September 2006 - December 2008
Maintained global relationships with insurance companies, brokers, and internal stakeholders. Analyzed risk profile and presented to boards of investment management portfolios: mutual funds and offshore hedge funds.

Actuary
AIG
June 2004 - September 2006
Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuarial Society: passed Courses 1 & 2. Analyzed workers compensation industry trends and forecasted expected profit/loss for various lines of business to be used as benchmarks for weekly presentations with management.
Carol was also given offers to work at
MetLife
Nomura Securities Co
Education
Saint John's University (NY)
Master’s Degree, Management of Risk
2007 - 2009
Statistics & regression analysis - part time program
NYU Stern School of Business
Bachelor's Degree, Finance, Actuarial Science; Minor: Mathematics
2000 - 2004
Grade: Dean's Honor Roll Activities and societies: Professional Development Society (Vice President), Asian Cultural Union (Secretary)
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