Chief of Staff, YouTube Product Partnerships

Chief of Staff, YouTube Product Partnerships at Google

The YouTube Central Planning and Operations team drives global, cross-functional initiatives for the growth and health of the YouTube creator and partner ecosystem. This includes planning, business operations, incentives design, and business strategy across Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

The YouTube Product Partnerships team crafts partner strategy and manages key relationships to defend, grow, and build YouTube’s global products. We handle the business aspects of new features, products, and initiatives crucial to YouTube’s success, assessing partnership opportunities, defining strategy, and collaborating with Product, Marketing, Legal, and other stakeholders.

As a Chief of Staff, YouTube Product Partnerships (YTPP), you will work closely with the Vice President (VP) of Product Partnerships to ensure the global team operates effectively and grows. You'll serve as a thought partner to YTPP leadership, preparing them for major internal and external discussions, and acting as their proxy in cross-functional conversations to scope new projects. Your role involves diligently driving team programming to share information, achieve alignment on critical decisions, and build community across globally-distributed teams. You will effortlessly navigate between defining the team’s long-term mission and program-managing the rhythm of the business as the team scales.

At YouTube, we foster a belief that everyone deserves a voice, and that collective listening, sharing, and community building through stories makes the world better. We empower individuals to share their stories, explore passions, and connect globally. Operating at the intersection of advanced technology and boundless creativity, we move with cultural speed, aiming to show people the world. We embrace new ideas, solve real problems, and enjoy the process together.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate advisory, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a Chief of Staff or Strategy and Operations role, or a similar role requiring leadership of varied operational initiatives while working closely with executive leaders.
• Experience with projects, cross-functional stakeholder management (including internationally distributed teams across time zones), and project management.
• Ability to work autonomously and keep multiple priorities moving at the same time.
• Ability to understand and articulate the “big picture" to executive teams, while maintaining exceptional attention to execution details.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Set agenda for weekly Product Partnership Leadership meetings, off-sites, etc.
• Advise the Vice President of Product Partnerships and his leadership team to help them prepare for internal and external meetings, including creating and reviewing meeting deliverables.
• Act as a proxy for the Product Partnerships executive team cross-functionally as needed, providing direction based on team priorities and cross-functional considerations.
• Lead operational projects based on emergent business needs.
• Participate in early discussions on behalf of the business (including with cross-functional teams) to scope new projects, build story lines and decks for executive business reviews.
• 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.

Key Skills/Competency

• Strategic Planning
• Business Operations
• Executive Advising
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Business Strategy
• Problem Solving
• Communication Skills
• Product Partnerships