Senior Strategy and Operations Manager, YouTube Marketing

Senior Strategy and Operations Manager

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain. Minimum qualifications : Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in management consulting, operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree. 4 years of experience working with executive stakeholders. 4 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives. Preferred qualifications : Experience in a role requiring distinctive business judgment, problem solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating recommendations to executive leaders. Ability to apply structure to ambiguous problems and navigate a changing environment. Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence executive managers. Ability to proactively identify areas of opportunity and improvement across all work. Excellent organizational, problem solving, communications, and project management skills.

Strategy & Operations (S&O) professionals in Google's Marketing organization provide business critical insights and analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. Whether you are embedded within a specific marketing team to use insights to enable better marketing decisions or the global S&O function to equip the organization to succeed at scale, you will engage with Google leadership in order to establish Marketing's strategic direction. You will manage planning and operational processes and work cross-functionally with key partners across Marketing, Product, Finance and Engineering to solve our toughest challenges, advocate for high-priority projects, and drive greater operational excellence within Marketing. To be successful in this role, you have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, effective quantitative and communication skills, and the ability to take on broad-reaching and ambiguous questions while working collaboratively and cross-functionally with Googlers of all levels.

At YouTube, our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world. We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we share and build community through our stories. YouTube Marketing's Strategy, Insights and Analytics (SIA) team shapes the goal for YouTube Music (YTM), translates that goal into action, and proactively analyzes what's working (and not) to maximize our collective impact.

Responsibilities : Serve as a partner to an executive leader, anticipating business needs, providing thoughtful feedback, and incubating solutions for the team's biggest opportunities and issues. Incubate and launch high-impact strategy projects related to business strategy and operations, organisation design, new capabilities, and team culture. Evaluate Marketing performance and impact and make data-driven recommendations for how to adjust our approach to reach our ambitious goals. Drive operational excellence across the organization, owning and optimizing a high-impact rhythm of the business and operations programs to improve execution. Lead change management workstreams, defining goals, building project plans, and navigating stakeholders to deliver high-quality results.

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