Strategic Partner Development Associate, Gaming, YouTube

Google; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Strategic Partner Manager to manage a portfolio of YouTube creators identified as strategic to our business goals. You will drive product adoption and optimize across YouTube priorities, while assessing creators’ needs and helping grow their channels and revenue.

You will build relationships, negotiate, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to deliver insights and strategies. The role offers collaboration across products like YouTube, Google TV, and Commerce.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking.
• Experience in the Consumer Electronics, Auto, OEMs, Telecom, E-Commerce/Retail, Apps, Ads, Gaming, or Technology industries.

Responsibilities

• Establish scaled strategic relationships with partners through different engagement types.
• Drive product adoption, optimization across YouTube priorities and support creators in their content, business generation, and viewership goals.
• Ensure your partner portfolio complies with YouTube’s Community Guidelines and policies and support them in navigating YouTube’s support and operations teams.
• Engage with and understand the latest features, policies, and platform improvements to help partners succeed.
• Manage initiatives to grow emerging creators, including workshops, events and other scaled initiatives.

Skills

Business development

Partnerships

Management consulting

Investment banking

Industry experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Bruno, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking.
• Experience in the Consumer Electronics, Auto, OEMs, Telecom, E-Commerce/Retail, Apps, Ads, Gaming, or Technology industries.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in the video, media, entertainment industry, and experience as a YouTube creator or working with partners or creators.
• Experience in an external-facing customer interaction role within customer support, sales, or relationship development.
• Excellent communication, presentation, planning and time/pipeline management skills, with strong attention to detail.

About The Job

Google's line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Equipped with your business acumen and extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google's newest product offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce.

As a Strategic Partner Manager (SPM), you will manage a portfolio of YouTube creators identified as strategic to our business objectives. You will drive product adoption and optimization across YouTube’s platform priorities while also assessing creators’ needs and goals, crafting a plan to grow their channel, and delivering insights and strategy to enable their success on YouTube. You will deliver against partner performance metrics and core program KPIs to drive maximum impact.

In this role, you will grow in a fast-moving environment, and build a working understanding of YouTube internal processes, products, and teams. You will support your team in deepening relationships with key partners and creators, helping them optimize and adopt features, enabling YouTube to be successful. You will develop your skills in relationship-building, negotiation, project management, and collaboration, focusing on tasks that contribute to your team's and organization's goals.

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: $73500 - $103000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Establish scaled strategic relationships with partners through different engagement types.
• Drive product adoption, optimization across YouTube priorities and support creators in their content, business generation, and viewership goals.
• Ensure your partner portfolio complies with YouTube’s Community Guidelines and policies and support them in navigating YouTube’s support and operations teams.
• Engage with and understand the latest features, policies, and platform improvements to help partners succeed.
• Manage initiatives to grow emerging creators, including workshops, events and other scaled initiatives.

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.