Senior Lead, Global Product Solutions, YouTube Performance Business Intelligence

Google LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 186,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Lead for the YouTube Performance Business Intelligence team in the YouTube Ads GTM group. This role focuses on defining strategies, translating market needs into actionable data objectives, and partnering across gTech, Marketing, and GTM teams to drive growth and product adoption.

You will influence executive leadership with data-driven insights, navigate ambiguity, and steer commercialization roadmaps across multiple US locations, including New York and Los Angeles

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Experience influencing executive leaders through data and judgment.

Responsibilities

• Identify business requirements to grow within the market and influence product development.
• Establish goals and framework for cross-functional partnership with gTech, Marketing, and Go-to-Market teams; drive alignment and multiplier effects.
• Create business excellence infrastructure to assess health of YouTube Performance business with Analyst and Finance teams.
• Define and execute cross-team strategies to drive product adoption and business growth; develop internal narratives and data insights for decisions.
• Synthesize seller and advertiser feedback on AI tools to influence product priorities and commercialization processes.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Data-driven decision making

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Advanced degree (MBA or MS)

Job description

Senior Lead, Global Product Solutions, YouTube Performance Business Intelligence

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YouTube

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New York, NY, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; +7 more

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Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

The application window will be open until at least November 23, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Bruno, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CO, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in advertising, marketing technology, management consulting, or product management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA or Master's in Science).
• Experience with Google Ads products.
• Experience influencing executive leaders through judgment and data. Demonstrated experience navigating highly ambiguous strategic goals and translating them into clear, actionable data objectives that directly steer product or commercialization roadmaps.
• Proven track record of driving change and innovation.
• Excellent strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead complex operational and strategic initiatives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both practitioner and exec-level contexts.

About the job

Businesses of all shapes and sizes rely on Google’s unparalleled advertising solutions to help them grow in today's dynamic marketing environment. You bring a passion for sales, knowledge of online media, and commitment to maximize customer success. You act like an owner, move with velocity through change, finding innovative and strategic ways to consistently deliver extraordinary and incremental outcomes for both Google and your customers. You build trusted relationships with customers, uncovering their business needs and translating them into powerful solutions to achieve their most ambitious goals. You achieve as a team with sellers, shape the future of advertising in the AI-era, and make a real impact on the millions of companies and billions of users that trust Google with their most important goals.

The YouTube Ads GTM team is the link between YouTube products and business. Our mission is to fuel YouTube’s growth by scaling innovation to our customers, creators and viewers. We do this by translating global market needs into meaningful product solutions that drive business results for content partners and customers. In this role, you will focus on defining and nurturing new business strategies, serving as the heart of YouTube+ Performance business intelligence and play a key role in driving pivotal business decisions.

We are seeking someone with strong business acumen, problem-solving and strategy prowess and comfort in working in a matrixed structure.

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

US: $186000 - $269000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Identify business requirements to grow within the market and influence product development.
• Establish goals and framework for cross-functional partnership with gTech, Marketing, and Go-to-Market teams. Execute and iterate on the framework, driving cross-functional integration, alignment and multiplier effect of the work.
• Create business excellence infrastructure and system to assess and monitor the health of the YouTube Performance business, in partnership with Analyst and Finance teams.
• Define and execute cross-team strategies to drive product adoption and business growth goals. Facilitate executive decision making with the development of compelling internal narratives, rich data insights, hypothesis testing and influencing.
• Synthesize seller and advertiser feedback on AI tools and operational data to influence product priorities and streamline commercialization processes.