Strategy and Operations Lead, YouTube Auction Brand

Strategy and Operations Lead, YouTube Auction Brand Locations: Los Angeles, CA; São Paulo; Toronto; Atlanta, GA; Boulder, CO; Chicago, IL; Mountain View, CA; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA. Mid-level position requiring experience in driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring junior team members. Minimum qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 6 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role. Preferred qualifications Understanding of the customer and market landscape, and how brands build on YouTube and competitors. Ability to influence and achieve alignment among senior stakeholders with engaging objectives. Ability to convey complex information verbally and in writing, establishing links between customer objectives and business objectives. Ability to own complex projects and datasets, manage project scoping, and drive operational excellence. Ability to develop unified activation strategies that drive a regional business while allowing for critical nuance across international markets. About the job The Go-to-Market Operations (GTM) team, part of Google's Global Business Organization (GBO), ensures our complex and evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We set go-to-market strategy and ensure flawless execution and operations against that strategy. The Product Go-To-Market (PGTM) team partners with Google's largest revenue-carrying business unit, Americas Large Customer Sales (ALCS), generating digital ad revenue from large advertisers in the US, Canada, and LATAM. PGTM designs, builds, and drives ALCS Product Activation Strategies that accelerate ALCS growth by providing clear, unified, objective focus on American product priorities and biggest growth opportunities, and empowering sellers with proven approaches, infrastructure, and resources to operate with velocity, and also collaborating with regional, global, and functional partners to bring the best of Google to ALCS. As the home to some of Google's largest advertisers, you will position the Americas to lead from the front by unlocking new revenue opportunities through YouTube Brand Auction products. You will manage priorities in accelerating YouTube revenue in ALCS Brand Auction Products covering Reach and Frequency and YouTube Shorts. You will act as the bridge between YouTube and Large Customer Sales operations, navigating ambiguity to reduce operational complexity for YouTube Brand Auction. You will serve as the go-to subject matter expert for Americas (AMER), innovating new solutions to broad problems and influencing senior stakeholders to ensure YouTube remains competitive. Individual pay: Canada $156,000 - $160,000 CAD + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits. US $152,000 - $222,000 USD + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities Drive awareness, commercialization and activation of YouTube Brand Auction products across all AI-powered campaign types anchored to key GBO business objectives. Lead forums with sector-level video leads to ensure sector YouTube activation strategies are aligned to ALCS Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Business Forecast Meetings (BFMs), helping to track and report on progress towards annual goals, providing critical product updates and feedback programs. Activate training, events and author the communication to educate ALCS sellers on how to best activate new offerings with their customers. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive future YouTube Brand Auction product development, identify market-level feedback/product gaps, grow the communication efforts, define adoption OKRs, and establish value propositions. Provide thought leadership on product activation, and forward looking product related business opportunities. Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 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