Global Strategy & Operations Associate — Marketing Growth

Google; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's YouTube Marketing team seeks a Strategy and Operations Associate to drive cross-functional alignment and deliver on high-priority initiatives across geographies. You will analyze metrics, support annual planning, and partner with Marketing, Product, Finance, and People Operations to solve complex business problems.

You will help shape strategic plans, translate data into actionable insights, and work with senior leaders to drive performance while thriving in a fast-changing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in a management consulting, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, or private equity role.
• Experience working with clients, executives, or other partners.
• Experience developing business strategies or executing cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience in a role requiring distinctive business judgment, rigorous problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to senior management.
• Experience with analytical tools/techniques (SQL, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, spreadsheet software).
• Familiarity with how marketing capabilities come together to drive impact.
• Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence senior managers.
• Tolerance for ambiguity and ability to work in a fast-changing environment.
• Possess foundational understanding of market, product, organizational and cross-functional nuances with an awareness of when to seek additional support and guidance.

Responsibilities

• Define problem statement and project scope to deliver against key business objectives with guidance, execute components of a project plan and help deliver aspects of projects in a high-quality and timely manner.
• Support a data-driven annual business planning process and annual goals, and land the business plan in partnership with all the stakeholders.
• Conduct market research to facilitate business judgement, market understanding, and fact-based analysis to identify, prioritize, and solve complex business problems.
• Identify and recommend strategic opportunities to support YouTube Marketing’s long-term goals.
• Monitor, track and analyze metrics and complex data to ensure progress against business objectives surface actionable insights to help drive the business.

Skills

Client engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

SQL

Statistical analysis

Predictive modeling

Spreadsheet software

Job description

Google's YouTube Marketing team seeks a Strategy and Operations Associate to drive cross-functional alignment and deliver on high-priority initiatives across geographies. You will analyze metrics, support annual planning, and partner with Marketing, Product, Finance, and People Operations to solve complex business problems.

You will help shape strategic plans, translate data into actionable insights, and work with senior leaders to drive performance while thriving in a fast-changing environment.