Marketing Strategy & Operations Associate

Google; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Google's YouTube Marketing (YTM) Strategy and Operations team seeks a data‑driven professional to define problems, scope, and plan, while guiding cross‑functional initiatives. You will conduct market research, analyze metrics, and identify strategic opportunities to support long‑term goals.

In this role you’ll partner with stakeholders, land annual plans, and help drive business planning through rigorous analysis and clear communication to senior leadership 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 with distinctive business judgment and problem-solving.
• 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, influence senior managers.
• Tolerance for ambiguity and ability to work in a fast-changing environment.
• Foundational understanding of market, product, organizational and cross-functional nuances.

Responsibilities

• Define problem statement and project scope to deliver against key business objectives with guidance.
• Support a data-driven annual business planning process and annual goals, and land the business plan with 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

Business judgment

Problem solving

Quantitative analysis

Presenting findings

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

SQL

Statistical analysis

Predictive modeling

Spreadsheet software

Job description

Google's YouTube Marketing (YTM) Strategy and Operations team seeks a data‑driven professional to define problems, scope, and plan, while guiding cross‑functional initiatives. You will conduct market research, analyze metrics, and identify strategic opportunities to support long‑term goals.

In this role you’ll partner with stakeholders, land annual plans, and help drive business planning through rigorous analysis and clear communication to senior leadership in a fast‑changing environment.