Global YouTube Monetization & Pricing Product Lead

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 152,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Global Product Lead for YouTube Monetization and Pricing to drive strategic monetization and marketplace optimization across YouTube’s core and emerging advertising surfaces. You will work with Product Management and Engineering to translate market signals into scalable pricing frameworks and go-to-market strategies.

You will design pricing models, lead investment in bidding capabilities and inventory tooling, and partner with regional GTM and Sales Leadership to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in advertising, marketing technology, management consulting, or product management.
• 2 years of experience working with Product Management or Engineering teams, executive leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• 2 years developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design, model, and operationalize global pricing strategies, rate cards, and monetization frameworks across YouTube ad surfaces, balancing inventory yield, advertiser demand, creator payouts, and long-term revenue growth.
• Partner upstream with Product Management and Engineering to define product requirements, feature specifications, and roadmap prioritization for bidding capabilities, ad serving and inventory mechanics, price tooling, and new format structures.
• Optimize marketplace health, auction dynamics, budget utilization, and inventory yield across surfaces to drive advertiser ROI and commercial efficiency.
• Drive commercialization strategy and global go-to-market execution for new ad serving capabilities, bidding features, pricing frameworks, and tooling; establish clear positioning, packaging, commercial guidelines, and seller enablement to ensure rapid market adoption.
• Lead cross-functional alignment across Product Management, Engineering, YouTube Organic, GTM, and Sales Leadership, formulating data-backed strategic narratives to secure executive sign-off on major monetization policies and roadmaps.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google is seeking a Global Product Lead for YouTube Monetization and Pricing to drive strategic monetization and marketplace optimization across YouTube’s core and emerging advertising surfaces. You will work with Product Management and Engineering to translate market signals into scalable pricing frameworks and go-to-market strategies.

You will design pricing models, lead investment in bidding capabilities and inventory tooling, and partner with regional GTM and Sales Leadership to ensure