Product Activation Manager, APAC Gtm

Job Description

The YouTube Strategy team focuses on our highest priorities, solving complex, ambiguous problems that span early stage growth initiatives, investing in our largest product or business areas, making major operational or organizational changes, and assessing strategic rationale for YouTube external investment opportunities. Throughout, we provide analytics-based insights, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, help YouTube teams drive our most important strategic initiatives, and advise our senior leadership on the best path forward.

The YouTube Business Central Strategy & Operations team is responsible for leading global, cross-functional, strategic initiatives to drive the unprecedented growth and health of the YouTube creator and partner ecosystem. The core capabilities of the team include strategic planning and business operations, incentives design and operations, and business strategy ad operations for the three regions: Americas, EMEA, and APAC. In this role, you will be a key partner to YouTube APAC Partnerships teams and leadership, helping them to bring our Creator, Emerging Experiences and Community (EMCO), and Shopping products to market, and an advocate for creators, creator third-party providers and merchants, helping to bring their feedback to product teams to ensure it meets the needs of all of our creators and partners.

Google Customer Solutions (GCS) sales teams are trusted advisors and competitive sellers who maintain a relentless focus on customer success by bringing the best Google has to offer to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which are the backbone of our communities. As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work with company owners and make a real difference in their businesses by helping them grow. Together, we help shape the future of innovation for customers, partners, and sellers...and we have fun doing it.

Resonsibilities:
• Own the product Go-to-Market strategy in APAC for key verticals/products.
• Work seamlessly with the Global Product Activation team and the APAC YouTube Partnerships team to drive business outcomes and product adoption goals, while also leading cross­-functional projects working with a broad stakeholder set.
• Support the launch of creator and shopping products in APAC markets.
• Synthesize and prioritize regional product feedback. Make recommendations on product roadmap to global.
• Collaborate with global product, regional and country teams on pilots, program assessments, and cross-functional engagements to drive market growth and support business plans.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate advisory, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:
• MBA.
• 2 years of experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, or a digital media environment.
• 2 years of experience creating complex data sets, data modeling, and reporting.
• Deep knowledge of the creator ecosystem or e-Commerce operations, as well as the customer and competitive contexts in which they operate.
• Ability to structure a compelling storyline and build presentation decks/documents to support their position.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gw61jn-18-191-210-103-42 in your application.