Business Operations Manager, YouTube Go-to-Market Operations

The YouTube Business Central Planning and Operations team is responsible for leading global, cross-functional initiatives to drive the growth and health of the YouTube creator and partner ecosystem. The core capabilities of the team include strategic planning, business operations, incentives design and operations, product partnerships strategy, and go-to-market for the three regions: Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

As the Business Operations Manager for YouTube’s Go-to-Market Operations team, you will work closely with the leadership team to help the business grow, ensuring our teams are executing against YouTube’s most critical priorities and driving consistency around our ongoing operations. You will refine and drive operating processes for the team’s Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), establish new motions for monitoring operational and business metrics, and ensure alignment across the team on our most strategic initiatives.

Your understanding of the team’s work and your ability to analyze a challenge with structured thinking and a sense for process will help propel strategic priorities across the team. You are comfortable with ambiguity and you adapt your approach to reconcile with changing priorities, directions, and guidance. You are comfortable working cross-functionally in a results-driven environment, have an experience of managing engaging priorities, and want to be part of an innovative global team forging new ground in the world of technology and entertainment

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team’s global objective and key results (OKR) processes in close collaboration with cross-functional leadership to ensure awareness and alignment.
• Orchestrate a strategic cadence of broad operational reviews to enable executive leadership to monitor business trends, identify best practices, and course-correct as needed.
• Lead a structured process to surface new critical business needs, and surface across the leadership team to align on prioritization and trade-offs, partner with technical teams to refine tooling and workflows to help automate.
• Identify problems and issues across the organization, create programs and processes to solve them, and influence cross-functional teams and leadership to bring them to life.

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.
• 4 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA, or equivalent practical experience in a technical, quantitative, or a business field.
• 2 years of experience creating data sets, data modeling, and reporting.
• Experience in consumer internet and media industries.
• Experience with operational projects, cross-functional stakeholder management and project management, including the ability to work autonomously and keep multiple priorities moving at the same time.
• Excellent communication skills along with the ability to communicate across multiple levels, including cross-functional teams and executive leadership.
• Excellent problem-solving skills (e.g., spreadsheets/modeling, SQL) along with informed business judgment.

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

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.