Chief of Staff, YouTube

Google; San Bruno (CA); On-site; USD 222,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Chief of Staff for YouTube to drive strategy, operations, and analytics across teams. You will partner with senior leaders, ensuring execution aligns with the company mission and strategic priorities while coordinating across Product, Engineering, UX, and Data Science.

You will influence executives, manage cross-functional programs, and help scale high-impact initiatives through clear communication and thoughtful project governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.
• Experience with consumer product strategy and operations, leading projects with multiple stakeholders (e.g., Product Management, Engineering, UX, Data Science).

Responsibilities

• Drive the evolution of the outlook, strategy, and operations for YouTube, in partnership with the VP of Product and Engineering.
• Partner with YouTube Leads to ensure that the organization is operating smoothly and structurally aligned with the overall mission.
• Develop key communications across all levels of the organization, including to SVP/VP, at all hands, offsites, and leadership summits.
• Act as a proxy for VP of product when needed, using judgment and discretion to drive decision-making.

Skills

Management consulting

Product management

Strategy

Analytics

Cross-functional leadership

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Consumer product strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.
• Experience with consumer product strategy and operations, leading projects with multiple stakeholders (e.g., Product Management, Engineering, UX, Data Science).

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.
• Experience with consumer product strategy and operations, leading projects with multiple stakeholders (e.g., Product Management, Engineering, UX, Data Science).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience providing objective decision support to key stakeholders and influencing audiences including executives.
• Experience directly managing a team and partnering on cross-functional projects or teams.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• Experience in or passion for emerging consumer technologies, digital media, and community-driven platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About The Job

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google's functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.

Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

YouTube's mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world. The emerging experiences and community organization sits at the frontier of YouTube's future, covering emerging experiences and strategic bets.

As Chief of Staff, you will partner with YouTube leadership, driving faster execution and higher-quality decision-making. Your impact spans strategy, operations and analytics to shape the long-term outlook and streamline organizational health for high-stakes emerging products.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $222000 - $308000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Drive the evolution of the outlook, strategy, and operations for YouTube, in partnership with the VP of Product and Engineering.
• Partner with YouTube Leads to ensure that the organization is operating smoothly and structurally aligned with the overall mission.
• Develop key communications across all levels of the organization, including to SVP/VP, at all hands, offsites, and leadership summits.
• Act as a proxy for VP of product when needed, using judgment and discretion to drive decision-making.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .