Google

Strategy and Operations Lead, YouTube Auction Brand

Google$152K — $222K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.
  • Understanding of the customer and market landscape on YouTube and its competitors.
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders with engaging objectives.
  • Capacity to convey complex information and align customer and business objectives.
  • Experience managing complex projects and datasets with operational excellence.
  • Proven skills in developing regional strategies for international markets.

Responsibilities

  • Drive awareness and commercialization of YouTube Brand Auction products aligned with key business objectives.
  • Lead forums to ensure sector-level YouTube strategies meet ALCS goals and track progress effectively.
  • Activate training and events to educate sellers on new offerings for customer engagement.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product development and address market feedback.
  • Provide thought leadership on product activation and explore future business opportunities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage.
  • Retirement savings plans with company match.
  • Generous parental leave policies.
  • Wellness programs and resources.
  • Opportunities for professional development and advancement.
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This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.
The application window will be open until at least July 10, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

For Sao Paulo applicants:

Please submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.

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

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Understanding of the customer and market landscape, and how brands build on YouTube and competitors.
  • Ability to influence and achieve alignment among a varied set of senior stakeholders (e.g., Directors) with engaging objectives.
  • Ability to convey complex information verbally and in writing, establishing links between customer objectives and Google's business objectives.
  • Ability to own complex projects and datasets, manage project scoping, and drive operational excellence.
  • Ability to develop unified activation strategies that drive a regional business while allowing for critical nuance across international markets with distinct needs.


About the job

The Go-to-Market Operations (GTM) team, part of Google's Global Business Organization (GBO), ensures our complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy and ensuring flawless execution and operations against that strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas and global teams working accross those business areas.

As one of GTM's core regional organizations, the Product Go-To-Market (PGTM team) partners with Google's largest revenue-carrying business unit, Americas Large Customer Sales (ALCS), generating digital ad revenue from large advertisers in the US, Canada, and LATAM. PGTM designs, builds, and drives ALCS Product Activation Strategies that accelerate ALCS growth by providing clear, unified, objective focus on American product priorities and biggest growth opportunities, and empowering sellers with proven approaches, infrastructure, and resources to operate with velocity, and also collaborating with regional, global, and functional partners to bring the 'best of Google' to ALCS

As the home to some of Google's largest advertisers, You will position the Americas to lead from the front by unlocking new revenue opportunities through YouTube Brand Auction products. You will manage some of the largest priorities in accelerating YouTube revenue in ALCS Brand Auction Products covering Reach and Frequency and YouTube (YT) Shorts. You will act as the bridge between YouTube and Large Customer Sales (LCS) operations, navigating ambiguity to reduce operational complexity for YouTube Brand Auction. You will serve as the go-to subject matter expert for Americas (AMER), innovating new solutions to broad problems and influencing senior stakeholders to ensure YouTube remains competitive.

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

Canada: $156000 - $160000 (CAD) 15% bonus target equity benefits
US: $152000 - $222000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Drive awareness, commercialization and activation of YouTube Brand Auction products across all AI-powered campaign types anchored to key GBO business objectives.
  • Lead forums with sector-level video leads to ensure sector YouTube activation strategies are aligned to ALCS Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Business Forecast Meetings (BFMs), helping to track and report on progress towards annual goals, providing critical product updates and feedback programs.
  • Activate training, events and author the communication to educate ALCS sellers on how to best activate new offerings with their customers.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive future YouTube Brand Auction product development, identify market-level feedback/product gaps, grow the communication efforts, define adoption OKRs, and establish value propositions.
  • Provide thought leadership on product activation, and forward looking product related business opportunities.


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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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