Chief of Staff, YouTube AMER Partnerships

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.

In this role, you will be responsible for shaping, driving the business cadence and executive communication to support the VP of YouTube AMER Partnerships as well as managing a range of strategy projects that are critical to the future growth of YouTube’s Partnerships business.

You will act as a key point-of-contact for the Vice President (VP) of YouTube AMER Partnerships and will engage and coordinate closely with a large range of stakeholders in Partnerships, Go-To-Market Operations, People Operations and other cross functional teams. You are able to develop strategy, have strong problem-solving and stakeholder management abilities, enjoy developing narratives and storylines and effectively communicate with executive stakeholders. The role is highly collaborative, working with a broad range of colleagues across functions and locations.

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

• Be a thought partner to the VP of YouTube AMER Partnerships and Leadership team. Build a strong network with Partnership teams, across levels, to capture Partner Manager feedback and identify new opportunities and challenges
• Develop and manage executive internal communications strategies to Partnerships teams and cross-functional leadership including talking points, emails, and presentations
• Lead strategic preparation for the VP and their Leadership team, including cross-functional briefing materials for executive visits and partner/creator engagement.
• Drive the operational cadence for the AMER Partnerships business and Executive team’s agenda. Drive AMER wide strategic initiatives including the People Plan and AI transformation plan
• Collaborate cross functionally to drive key Business Operations for AMER Biz (e.g., Business Reviews, annual planning and objective and key results (OKRs)).

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:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in strategic or executive communications, ability to translate complex, ambiguous topics to stories that spark an audience.
• Advanced project management and organizational skills, in a strategy and operations function or team.
  
• Strong business acumen; long-term strategic thinking balanced with near-term execution skills.
• Strong ability to stakeholder management at executive levels with clear written and verbal communication.
• Strong business sense with distinctive problem-solving and analysis skills.