What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategy Manager, YouTube position at YouTube?
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a business or quantitative discipline (e.g., Business Administration, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in management consulting or other business strategy role.
- Experience in analytics.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or Master's degree in a related field.
- Experience with financial modeling, SQL, and data visualization.
- Experience communicating and influencing a range of audiences, including executives.
- Experience in tech or media industries.
- Excellent business judgement and ability to impact initiatives.
- Excellent problem-solving, investigative, modeling and presentation skills.
About the job
The YouTube Strategy, Analytics and Finance team’s mission is to make YouTube 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 with proactive and trusted risk management. Within this group, the Strategy team operates similar to a dedicated internal consulting team, driving high-impact projects commissioned directly by YouTube’s executive leadership. The team conducts projects that drive recommendations on YouTube’s biggest new trends, opportunities, and issues – from navigating the rise of GenAI and short-form video, to analyzing new business opportunities like Shopping, to capturing growth in subscriptions, to responsibly managing the health of the creator and partner ecosystem, and more. This role will have the opportunity to work on rotating projects in different YouTube product areas.
As a Strategy Manager for YouTube, you will drive our team’s initiatives forward with the coaching of Principals and Directors, by applying critical thinking, researching user, creator, and performers trends, analyzing data, and synthesizing recommendations on major business decisions. You will inform key business decisions and catalyze successful launches with cross-functional teams. You will collaborate with our leadership and work with colleagues across functions, including YouTube's Product, Business, Engineering, Partnerships, Marketing, Sales teams and more. In addition, you will be an integral part of the Strategy team’s tight-knit community and culture.
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.The US base salary range for this full-time position is $147,000-$216,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Break down problems with frameworks and detailed action plans.
- Perform quantitative analysis (e.g., sophisticated financial modeling, SQL queries) and qualitative analysis (e.g., analyzing key trends).
- Articulate information through compelling verbal and written reports, and presentations tailored to a variety of audiences across levels of management and functions.
- Cultivate relationships with teams, influence cross-functionally to achieve shared objectives.
- Advocate the culture through embodying a learning mentality, an ownership mindset and teamwork orientation. Mentor and coach team members.
