Strategic Partner Manager, YouTube, Partners (English, Japanese)
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 part of the Strategic Partner Manager, you will serve as a critical thought-leader for YouTube and the Creator Partners who are the foundation of the YouTube ecosystem. You role will require an understanding of the creator landscape, YouTube’s role in growing and shaping the landscape, and a passion for fostering mutually beneficial partnerships with content partners. You will identify industry trends, gather intelligence, and provide guidance to internal teams to scale critical business initiatives on YouTube. Your role also requires collaboration and joint initiatives with the cross-function organization to develop and execute Creator programs to accelerate key business drivers such as Shopping and Brand Deals in the Japan creator market. You will require relationship-building skills both externally and internally, strategic thinking, and the ability to navigate cross-functional collaborations, with cross-functional leadership across multiple teams including, Sales, GTM, Marketing, Legal, Product, Partnerships, and more. As a member of the broader LP Creator team, this role may also entail working with Influencer Marketing Agencies (IMAs) and Multi Creator Network agencies (MCNs).At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we 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 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.
As a part of the Strategic Partner Manager, you will serve as a critical thought-leader for YouTube and the Creator Partners who are the foundation of the YouTube ecosystem. You role will require an understanding of the creator landscape, YouTube’s role in growing and shaping the landscape, and a passion for fostering mutually beneficial partnerships with content partners. You will identify industry trends, gather intelligence, and provide guidance to internal teams to scale critical business initiatives on YouTube. Your role also requires collaboration and joint initiatives with the cross-function organization to develop and execute Creator programs to accelerate key business drivers such as Shopping and Brand Deals in the Japan creator market. You will require relationship-building skills both externally and internally, strategic thinking, and the ability to navigate cross-functional collaborations, with cross-functional leadership across multiple teams including, Sales, GTM, Marketing, Legal, Product, Partnerships, and more. As a member of the broader LP Creator team, this role may also entail working with Influencer Marketing Agencies (IMAs) and Multi Creator Network agencies (MCNs).At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we 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 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.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking.
- Ability to communicate in English and Japanese fluently as this is a customer-facing role that requires communicating with clients and stakeholders locally and internationally.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience managing complex, end-to-end partnerships.
- Experience working autonomously in a dynamic, ever-changing, and collaborative environment.
- Ability to identify potential business opportunities, assess financial/business benefit, structure agreements, and discuss terms with strategic partners.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.