Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of analytics focused experience with 4 years of experience in an analytics development role.
• 1 year of experience as a Product Owner in an analytics area.
• Experience with relational databases including SQL queries, database definition, and schema design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or MBA.
• Experience in building analytical solution on a variety of structured and unstructured data sources.
• Experience with turning data into insights at scale using algorithms and machine learning.
• Experience with presenting complex technical solutions to executive stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast paced environment.

About the job

The YouTube Strategy, Business Operations, Analytics and Finance (SBAF) team's mission is to make YouTube commercially sustainable and more valuable, by identifying and steering the business towards the biggest opportunities, guiding the organization to make the best possible decisions, and enabling effective implementation and operations, with proactive and trusted risk management.

With teams all over the world, the SBAF team works closely with YouTube and Google Finance leadership across the product, engineering and business organizations to address challenges and opportunities across the company, help chart the long-term direction and financial health of YouTube, and provide analytics and decision support for the planning and steering of the business. SBAF is a multi-specialist team, with several specialist capabilities across all pillars of the team: Strategy (Market and Competitive Intelligence, CEO Office and Corporate Strategy, Product and Business Strategy), Business Operations (Global, AMER, EMEA, APAC), Analytics and Decision Support (Data Infrastructure, BI Products, Commercial Analytics), and Finance (Core Business, Subs & Marketing, Business Controllership).

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun - and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and deployment of "single source of truth" centralized reports, dashboards, models and tools to analyze, report, and present partnerships and operations related data that is associated with YouTube Content Organization.
• Conduct requirements gathering and project scoping sessions with subject matter experts, business users, and executive stakeholders to discover and define business reporting needs.
• Use effective data visualization and analytical skills to simplify complex business flows and enable faster decision making and execution.
• Own strategy for shared analyst infrastructure (e.g., code base, business intelligence stack), and continually innovate on infrastructure for the analyst community to utilize.
• Advocate technical best practices within the analyst community on pipelines, dashboards, code review practices, and data concepts, and lead technical training.