Program Manager

Job Description

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

The YouTube Business Central Strategy and Operations team is responsible for leading global, cross-functional, strategic initiatives to drive the growth and health of the YouTube creator and partner ecosystem. We focus on YouTube's 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.

In this role, you will be a key partner to YouTube EMEA leadership and the partnerships teams, bringing products to our YouTube creators and partners. You will be an advocate for creators and publishers, helping to bring their feedback to product teams to ensure it meets the needs of EMEA creators and partners.

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.

Resonsibilities:
• Own the product go-to-market strategy in Europe, Middle East and Africa for key verticals/products such as TV, Sport, and Kids.
• Work with our Global Go-To-Market Product Activation team and the EMEA YouTube Partnerships team to drive business outcomes and product adoption goals, while also leading cross­-functional projects working with a broad stakeholder set.
• Synthesize and prioritize product feedback from the region. Build business case 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.
• Analyze multiple data sources (e.g., SQL, external research) to create business cases for Product change in EMEA. Manipulate and visualize data with hypothesis-led thinking to help the business understand where best to launch Product and with which partners.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in business leadership, consulting, or finance.
• Experience with data mining and manipulation, deriving insights from data sets, and presenting data for business insights.
• Commercial experience in media, sport, or creative industries.

Preferred qualifications:
• Knowledge of YouTube large partners and creator ecosystem, as well as the customer and competitive contexts in which YouTube operates.
• Ability to structure a clear business narrative and build presentation decks/documents to support its position.
• Ability to effectively operate with flexibility in a fast-paced, high energy, constantly evolving team environment.
• Strong business sense, including problem-solving and analytical skills.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g35n2q-3-146-34-59-42 in your application.