Strategy Associate, YouTube
San Bruno, CA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business discipline (e.g., Business Administration, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience in management consulting or other equivalent business strategy experience.
- Experience in analytics.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with financial modeling, SQL, and data visualization.
- Experience in tech or media industries.
- Experience communicating and influencing a range of audiences, including executives.
- Ability to impact initiatives and exceptional business judgement.
- Excellent problem-solving, investigative, and presentation skills.
About the job
The YouTube Strategy, Analytics, and Finance team’s mission is to make YouTube more valuable by identifying and steering the business towards big opportunities, guiding the organization to make the best possible decisions, and enabling effective implementation with proactive and trusted risk management. Within this group, the Strategy team operates similar to a dedicated internal management consulting team, driving high-impact projects commissioned directly by YouTube’s executive leadership. The team leads projects that drive recommendations on YouTube’s big new trends, opportunities, and challenges from navigating the rise of generative AI and short-form video to analyzing new business opportunities like shopping, capturing growth in subscriptions, to responsibly managing the health of the creator and partner ecosystem, and more.
As a Strategy Associate, you will drive our team’s initiatives forward with the coaching of principals and directors by applying critical thinking, researching user, creator, and participants trends, analyzing data, and synthesizing recommendations on major business decisions. Your work will inform key business decisions and catalyze successful launches with cross-functional teams. You will collaborate with our leadership and work with colleagues across functions, including YouTube's Product, Business, Engineering, Partnerships, Marketing, Sales teams, and more. In addition, you will be an integral part of the Strategy team’s tight-knit community and culture.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $118,000-$170,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.Responsibilities
- Break down problems with frameworks and detailed action plans.
- Perform quantitative analysis (e.g., sophisticated financial modeling, SQL queries) and qualitative analysis (e.g., analyzing key trends).
- Articulate information through compelling verbal and written reports, and presentations tailored to a variety of audiences across levels of management and functions.
- Cultivate relationships with teams, and influence cross-functionally to achieve shared objectives.
- Advocate the culture through embodying a learning mentality, an ownership mindset, and strong teamwork orientation.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.