Strategic Partner Development Senior Associate, Ad Measurement Planning

As a Strategic Partner Development Manager, you'll open doors with potential partners, lead exploratory discussions and evaluate/develop business opportunities. You will lead cross-functional teams, provide thought leadership and serve as a mentor to managers and associates. You are comfortable escalating and presenting business development strategies and key issues to senior management. You'll work closely with Google Product, Engineering, Legal and Sales teams on new product initiatives and key strategic relationships that support our online advertising business.

Google’s Global Ads Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business, and bring partners on board to help drive Google’s Ads business. The team partners with large technology companies, advertisers, publishers, and service providers across a broad range of advertising products.

In this role, you’ll work directly with cross-functional executives and key leaders, both internally and with partners, on critical projects that drive Google’s advertising business. You’ll lead agreements with key multinational partners that help highlight the value of Google’s advertising, and ensure that Google’s own advertising measurement and planning products are exceptional. You’ll drive business-critical projects from beginning to end, manage the relationships with partners, and develop an insightful perspective on the latest industry trends and market opportunities. You’ll work closely with cross-functional peers and leadership throughout Google, and provide coaching and thought-partnership to other members of the Global Ads Partnerships team.

The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google’s Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.

Responsibilities

• Lead partnership agreements and manage executive relationships and integrations with partners.
• Structure and discuss term sheets and agreements for business-critical partnerships. Manage implementation and ongoing operations of partnerships, including executive escalations.
• Understand the full scope of partners’ businesses and objectives to maximize the potential of Google’s partnerships.
  
• Drive the development of quantitative market analyses to identify and prioritize business opportunities for Google’s advertising business.
  
• Collaborate with a broad range of internal constituents (product, engineering, sales, legal, PR etc.), and work with Google’s cross-functional leadership to define, present, launch, and drive critical partnerships and organizational initiatives.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking, or 2 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience in negotiating and managing partnerships in the advertising or media industry.
• Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across multiple levels of management.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• JD, MBA or Master’s degree.
• Passion for and understanding of Google’s products, the advertising industry, the advertising measurement and planning space.
• Ability to balance multiple high-priority initiatives and lead multiple time-sensitive partnerships or projects simultaneously.
• Excellent investigative skills, with attention to detail, and the adaptability to grow in an ambiguous and rapidly changing business environment.
• Excellent people-management and communication skills with the ability to form and articulate contractual, technical, financial, value points and trade-offs with partners and internal teams.

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

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.