Google

Head of Partner and Deal Analysis, YouTube

Google$224K — $311K *
Media
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, or business development within media and sports.
  • 3 years in people or team management.
  • Experience in financial modeling and agreement structuring in media or technology sectors.
  • Expertise in building forecasting tools and investment analysis frameworks.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a quantitative analytical team throughout the partnership agreement lifecycle.
  • Work directly with C-level executives on complex agreements.
  • Develop and scale strategic frameworks for agreement evaluations and asset valuation.
  • Collaborate with YouTube Finance on detailed financial models and operational benchmarks.
  • Serve as an analytical connector across various teams including Finance and Product.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package.
  • Equity and bonus opportunities.
  • Flexible work location options.
  • Access to professional development resources.
  • Health and wellness programs.
Full Job Description
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X This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

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

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, business development, or partnerships in the media and sports industry.
  • 3 years of experience managing people or teams.
  • Experience in financial modeling, agreement structuring, or analysis within the media, entertainment, or technology sectors, and working cross-functionally with finance, product, and business development teams.
  • Experience building and governing forecasting tools, corporate valuation methodologies, or investment analysis frameworks.
  • Experience managing agreements or partnerships.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience formally managing people or leading project-based analytical pods in an agile corporate environment.
  • Deep understanding of pay-TV, sports rights acquisition and windowing strategies, subscription products (like DTC, Cable/Pay TV), digital media economics, or broadcast/affiliate landscapes.
  • Ability to distill highly dense, quantitative analytical variables into clear operational insights for executive audiences and cross-functional agreement desks.
  • Strong proficiency in advanced business case evaluation and how to manage a team to ensure zero-defect output. Proficiency with output metrics such as IRR, ROI, margin, and more.


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 head of the Partner and Deal Analysis group within PE&A, you will lead a team focused on strategic analysis throughout the agreement lifecycle - including partner prioritization, development of core assumptions for each content opportunity and securing cross-functional alignment, agreement modeling, and valuation in support of negotiation strategy.

In this role, your team will partner closely with Business Development, Finance, Product, and Go-to-Market teams to support approval processes and drive custom modeling for both opportunistic agreements and novel business concepts, and scale those frameworks when future opportunities arise.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $224000 - $311000 (USD) 25% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Lead and manage a highly quantitative, analytical team, focused on deep strategic analysis throughout the partnership agreement lifecycle.
  • Experience working directly with C-level executives and managing complex agreements or partnerships.
  • Build, execute, and scale core strategic frameworks for complex agreement evaluations, managing end-to-end modeling, asset valuation, willingness-to-pay calculations, and ensuring alignment with Finance and the organization's Long-Range Plan (LRP).
  • Partner closely with YouTube Finance to construct, defend, and validate detailed financial models. Drive the application of validation logic, operational benchmarking, and assumption definitions.
  • Serve as the primary analytical bridge working cross-functionally with Finance, Product, Strategic Partner Managers (SPMs), Marketing, Engineering, and more.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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$182.5 billion
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