Google

YouTube Music and Podcasts Lead, Product Strategy and Operations

Google$150K — $217K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in an analytical role (e.g., management consulting, investment banking, business intelligence, data science, corporate strategy and operations)
  • Master's degree, MBA, or advanced degree in a business or quantitative discipline (preferred)
  • Experience with A/B testing and experimentation methodologies (preferred)
  • Experience leveraging AI workflows or automation frameworks (preferred)
  • Experience in YouTube Music or the media industry (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Understand product health across YouTube's music and podcast experiences and raise trends to executive leadership.
  • Automate core workflows for product health using AI tools.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to enhance user activity insights on YouTube, YouTube Music, and YouTube Premium.
  • Define key drivers of Podcast Watch Time and identify opportunities to boost engagement.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to coordinate launches and shape product outlook.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Equity benefits
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
Full Job Description
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X 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.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in an analytical role (e.g., management consulting, investment banking, business intelligence, data science, corporate strategy and operations).

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree, MBA, or advanced degree in a business or quantitative discipline.
  • Experience with A/B testing and experimentation methodologies.
  • Experience leveraging AI workflows or automation frameworks to streamline analysis and reporting.
  • Experience in YouTube Music or the media industry.


About the job

Product Strategy and Operations helps Google's products and businesses grow and succeed. You will lead critical initiatives, usually spanning multiple teams and functions, to identify new opportunities or refactor barriers to growth, and then find solutions to address and implement them.

In this role, you'll be embedded within YouTube's Music and Podcasts products. This includes music and podcast content on both the main YouTube app and the YouTube Music app. You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day business cadence, overseeing and communicating business performance, and driving faster, better decisions that responsibly and sustainably grow our business. You'll also be a close business partner to our teams of data scientists, combining your insight and judgment with their deep analytical knowledge.

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

US: $150000 - $217000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Understand product health across YouTube's music and podcast experiences, and proactively raise trends and opportunities to improve to executive leadership.
  • Automate core workflows for product health, leveraging AI tools.
  • Collaborate with various cross-functional partners to improve our understanding of user activity across YouTube, YouTube Music, and YouTube Premium, and identify opportunities to grow Music and Podcast consumption.
  • Define the key drivers of Podcast Watch Time, and identify opportunities to increase Podcast engagement on YouTube.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to various cross functional partners for setting organizational priorities, coordinating launches and plans with other functions, and shaping the overall product outlook.


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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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