TV Partner Engineer, YouTube

The YouTube Business Product Activation Team is responsible for bringing product to market and market to product. The team works closely with both business and product leaders to scale adoption of YouTube products across the partner and creator ecosystem.

The core capabilities of the team include: designing go-to-market strategies, identifying and prioritizing product activation opportunities across the business, ensuring launch readiness, defining and driving execution on product activation across segments, understanding needs of partners and creators to provide Product teams with market feedback and prioritization to shape product roadmaps, developing content strategy, collecting and synthesizing user feedback, and tracking performance.

As a TV Partner Engineer, you will improve YouTube's technical integrations and workflows with media companies. You will be responsible for enabling the technical integrations between media companies, their content offerings, and YouTube, including crucial processes such as Primetime Channel onboarding. Your role is fast-paced and will involve developing multiple workflows and processes to ensure partners’ content goes live and the operations team can scale. You will engage with partners, as well as cross-functional teams such as Engineering, Business Development, Product Management, and Operations to specify and help develop the ideal workflows, strategy, and go-to-market support, while providing product input for partner self-service tools and applications. You will be instrumental in taking new initiatives from conception to successful deployment, implementing short-term solutions to bridge gaps for partners, and commercializing new solutions for the long-term.

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.

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

US: $102000 - $145000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Identify, drive, and optimize various operational TV workflows and tools —internally and with the partners— to maximize partners’ success on the platform. Represent the industry’s needs to the Product and Engineering teams.
  
• Improve operations by developing automation scripts and dashboards. Improve product feature offerings and self-service tools by collaborating with internal cross-functional teams, including Product Management and Engineering.
• Guarantee the technical aspects of a partner’s integration (both new and ongoing) by providing necessary documentation and technical guidance either directly or through scaled teams.
  
• Support our media company partners through technical troubleshooting, influencing, GTM adoption, and internal cross-functional collaboration. Capture trends across partners, advocate their needs internally, and create repeatable processes that can be scaled.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Experience working with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP).
  
• Experience coding with one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python).
  
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues for internal/external partners or customers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in an analytical role such as business intelligence, data analytics, or statistics.
  
• Experience working with database technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL).
  
• Experience with cloud technologies such as architecting, developing, or maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments or cloud data engineering.
  
• Experience working with systems (e.g., Linux, Unix, Windows).
  

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