Product Strategy and Operations Lead, YouTube Shopping

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
  
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple projects.
  
• Experience with SQL and spreadsheet based analysis.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in an analytically-intensive role, such as management consulting, investment banking, business intelligence, data science, or corporate strategy and operations.
  
• Experience working in an e-commerce/retail environment.
  
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  

About the job

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.

Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

YouTube’s ecosystem is constantly growing and evolving, and it is critical to deploy resources efficiently to best serve YouTube’s users, creators, and advertisers globally. We believe it's critical to use data to run our business and drive the decisions we make. Our Product Strategy and Operations Team partners with Product and Engineering leaders to help them run each major part of YouTube.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $165,000-$248,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Understand how YouTube Shopping is performing against our goals and promptly identify emerging trends/anomalies what actions we should consider in response.
  
• Run our weekly “health of the business” forum and tell a holistic story across Product, Engineering, and Business teams.
  
• Help YouTube’s leaders and teams define near-term strategy and direction, specifically our Annual and Quarterly Goals (OKRs) and how we measure and gauge success.
  
• Partner with our Data Science team to prioritize and execute quantitative analyses and advanced modeling that deliver actionable insights.
  
• Work with the YouTube Shopping leadership team to identify and prioritize medium and longer term opportunities.