
Carol S.
5.0
Land Your Dream Tech Role | Career Growth Expert | Ex-Google Manager
Studied at NYU Stern School of Business

Worked at Google
Hiring Manager
Available tomorrow at 11:00 PM UTC
more weeknight and weekend hours available upon request
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Carol’s Career Development Qualifications
Experience level: Manager
10+ people coached for Career Development
Carol has helped clients get into these companies:
Whether you're aiming for a promotion, considering a career pivot, or interviewing, I can provide the expert guidance and support you need to succeed. As your coach, I’ll equip you with practical tools and skills across a wide range of career development areas: Looking for a new role: * Career Planning & Pivots: Define your career goals, explore different career paths, and develop a strategic plan for achieving your aspirations, including navigating successful career pivots. * Networking & Personal Branding: Build a strong professional network, develop a compelling personal brand, and leverage online platforms to expand your reach. * Job Search Strategies: Develop effective search strategies, identify hidden opportunities, and optimize your online presence. * Resume Review & Optimization: Craft a compelling resume that highlights your key skills and accomplishments, capturing the attention of recruiters and hiring managers. * Interview Preparation: Master the art of interviewing, from behavioral questions to technical assessments, and learn how to confidently showcase your strengths, drawing on my experience interviewing dozens of candidates. * Salary Negotiation: Develop effective negotiation tactics to secure the compensation you deserve. Successfully navigating within tech and corporates: * Influencing Without Authority: Learn how to effectively influence stakeholders and drive results, even without formal authority. * Stakeholder Management: Develop strategies for building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders. * Gaining Visibility for Promotion: Learn practical strategies to showcase your contributions, build relationships with key decision-makers, and position yourself for advancement. * Articulating and Measuring Accomplishments: Develop techniques to effectively communicate your achievements, quantify your impact, and demonstrate the value you bring to the organization. * Seeking and Receiving Recognition: Learn how to proactively seek recognition for your work, both formally and informally, and effectively receive and leverage positive feedback. * Managing Up: Develop strategies for effectively communicating with and managing your relationship with senior leaders and your management team, ensuring your work and contributions are visible and understood. Let's connect and chart a personalized course for your career success. I'm ready to help you achieve your full potential and reach new heights in your career!
Carol can help with:
Interview Prep
Skill Building
Career Planning
Professional Networking
Resume Review
Personal Branding
Networking Strategy
Salary Negotiation
Job Search Strategies
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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Overall Rating
5.0
Carol has helped clients get into these companies: