[4] Schindler began his career in Bertelsmann's talent development program in the mid 1990s, focusing on new media services in the global corporate strategy division.

Schindler is credited for "[developing] a range of major sales partnerships and a number of internationally acknowledged marketing projects", including a campaign featuring Boris Becker,[2][6] and has received multiple industry awards.

[9] Schindler became chief of Google Central and Northern Europe in 2009,[3][10] overseeing operations in the Benelux countries, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

[11] In 2022, The Information said Schindler is "closer to the beating heart of Google's core money-making business than any other executive at the company".

[15] In his current role, Schindler leads sales for a $230-billion-a-year portfolio of Google services which generate 90 percent of Alphabet's revenues.

He is credited with having "devised new ways to package the company's businesses together, working with customers on an expanding list of complex partnerships".