Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, strategy and operations/business operations, venture capital, or private equity.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or other advanced degree.
• 5 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, strategy and operations/business operations, venture capital, or private equity.
• Experience in a role requiring distinctive business acumen, problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to management.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and in a fast-changing environment.
• Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence managers.

About the job

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.

As the Strategy and Business Affairs Lead, you will work with teams in all YouTube geographies and collaborate cross-functionally with key leaders across Marketing, Product, Finance, and People Operations to solve our toughest challenges, drive high priority projects, and achieve greater operational excellence within Marketing. In this role, you will become a trusted source of advice and an essential partner to our executive team.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with YouTube Marketing leadership on strategic projects that support key priorities across the organization.
• Develop robust analytics and actionable insights to enable key business decisions for YouTube Marketing leadership.
• Improve overall Marketing efficiency and effectiveness by applying a thorough approach to Marketing's operational processes.
• Evaluate Marketing performance/impact and make data-driven recommendations for how to adjust our approach to reach our goals.
• Bring best practices to stakeholders drawing from business operations, knowledge of marketing, internet/online media.